Hi, I'm Ali Jackson Jolly. I'm here with Everett Taylor, the CEO of Kickstarter.

Everett, welcome. Thanks for being here with us.

Thank you. It's always good to be with my Forbes family. You guys been holding me down for a long time.

Every time we look, you're growing more and more on what you're doing. So let me ask you this.

Kickstarter is about to turn 16 years old.

In many industries, that would mean it was in infancy.

But for crowdfunding platforms, that's ancient.

How have you worked to keep this platform relevant, to keep it, you know, as you said, just a few seconds ago, one of the big dogs in this industry.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, um, it's been great.

Like when I took over the company, despite us being number one in our space for a very

long time, I mean, we had declining revenue. You could even argue declining relevance. We, you know,

we had a slew of new competitors coming in the mix. We probably wasn't as productive as we should be.

And so that really motivated me when I got the seat to make sure

that we got Kickstarter back to a place of influence and really leading the charge and being the

innovators in the space. And if you know anything about me, like I'm very competitive. And so I wanted

to bring that momentum and energy back to the platform.

And it's been absolutely incredible.

I mean, we've grown revenue year over year every year since I've been there.

We're on an incredible trajectory.

I mean, even just this quarter, I mean, last quarter in Q1, we dropped 12 new major product features.

Like we are just on a role. It's really, really incredible to see.

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