Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I'm here with Everett Taylor CEO of

Kickstarter Everett you've just finished your first year good to see you.

Good to see you as well. So has it been everything you dreamed of and more?

I will say it has been the hardest job I've ever had but the most rewarding job I've ever had but I've ever had but I've had a blast doing it.

Well I want to go back to when you were because there was a lot you got a lot of attention when you came into the role what attracted

you to the job like in terms of what you thought well okay I can see what I can do

with this place what was in your mind coming in I think there's I think there's two things, right?

On the first side is about where I was in my life personally.

I think for, you know, part of my career,

especially coming from not a lot of money and struggle and things like that

There was a portion of my career where I really put an emphasis on hey how much is this job going to pay you know I'm still in that portion of my career I have to tell you

Hey Forbes give her a raise yeah here first and and so I still pick companies that I was really excited about,

but part of it wasn't always just about passion

or the things that I really wanted to do

to impact the world.

And when I got to Kickstarter, even previously before Kickstarter,

I was kind of in that same head space.

When you were at Arts, you see MEO of Arts?

Yeah, because I was so passionate about the art world and democratization of the art world. But it really came full circle for me at

Kickstarter to be at a place where, I mean, I feel like it's like a dream factory. We literally help people make their dreams come true.

If you have an idea, Kickstarter is the place for you.

So to be, you know, the head of a company like that that does so much good in the world that I can genuinely feel good about waking up every day and committing so much of my time and my life to this mission, it just, it's like a dream job genuinely so when you but nothing is

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