Jack Conte on Overthinking Everything

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Documentary, Selfhelp, Howto, Health & Fitness, Tv, Health, Self-help

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jack Conte is the CEO of Patreon.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Matt Diavella and you are listening to The Ground Up Show.
0:03.0	Today I'm joined by Patreon CEO Jack Conti.
0:07.0	Jack's career started as a YouTuber, content creator, and musician back in 2007.
0:13.0	His innovative music videos were seen by millions of people, yet he still struggled to make a living solely based off of ad dollars.
0:20.0	That's when he came up with the idea for Patreon.
0:22.6	We talk about overthinking, getting better at making decisions, and how creators can turn
0:27.0	their art into a business.
0:29.2	Enjoy the show.
0:30.2	Jack, thanks so much for coming on the ground up show.
0:36.7	Appreciate you being here.
0:37.7	This is the first interview, the first podcast in the new studio.
0:41.6	So I'm really excited that you're here to break it in.
0:44.2	Honored to pop the space as cherry.
0:48.2	Sorry.
0:48.8	Yeah, no, that's inappropriate.
0:50.3	I told you that this is a Christian conservative podcast.
0:56.4	No, I am, dude, it's, it was,
1:00.5	it's been a trip just the past like two weeks. Like, this has been the one thing I've wanted to do for a while is to create a little bit of separation between my work and my personal life and not
1:06.6	just have camera gear everywhere all the time. But then again, it was then this daunting experience of coming in, setting everything up.
1:13.0	And like, I am a perfectionist and just such an overthinker.
1:18.4	Like every single corner of this room, every detail of like thought through and overthought
1:22.9	and overplanned to the point where it just exhausts me.
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