Kickstarter’s Perry Chen on 10 years and billions of dollars of crowdfunding
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 1:42.6 | Perry Chen is drinking coffee. |
| 2:04.6 | Perry, why don't you give me your title at Kickstarter? Sure. I'm founder and chairman. I served a CEO a couple of times, probably about for six years of our 10 years in total. You were most recently CEO until a couple weeks ago, I think. Yeah, I think maybe it's about a month at this point, but yeah. Yeah, and depending when you listen to this, you have, Kickstarter has just turned 10 years old. Yes, yes, very, I think exciting. I mean, it is exciting. It's also just, you know, 10 years is so long. It's hard to believe. It's a weird company because it is both a noun, right? and the same way that Kleenex or Xerox is a noun, everyone sort of knows what Kickstarter is, |
| 2:20.6 | even if they can't identify you or the company. |
| 2:22.9 | They know it's crowdfunding. |
| 2:24.5 | Also, weirdly, for a sort of well-known, well-established internet company, you guys are pretty quiet. |
| 2:30.8 | I'm not accused of throwing an election for Donald Trump or undermining democracy or being a haven |
| 2:35.9 | haven for Nazis or running weird misinformation campaigns. So congratulations on that. |
| 2:42.2 | More positively, you've generated, what, four plus billion for various projects? |
| 2:47.4 | Yeah, I think that sounds right. That's an astonishing number. Thank you. I mean, what's really interesting is a couple years ago there was an economic impact report |
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