From Wundry, I'm Rufus Griskum, and this is a special episode of the next big idea.

It's part five of the mini series we're always on the lookout for fresh perspectives on the world around us

and ideas for how to navigate a changing landscape of challenges and opportunities.

We explored lots of those in season one of our podcasts.

But it's funny how you can have a great conversation and then something comes along, I don't know, let's say a global pandemic and it makes you wonder,

does what we just talked about still apply, or does it maybe apply even more?

So that's what we're doing. We're calling people back and asking them to

help us understand the moment we're in. Today I'm talking with Yancey Strickler.

Back in 2009 he and a couple friends started a little startup called

Kickstarter. He took it from a pie in the sky idea that venture capitalists called

cute but unworthy of investment to a platform that's helped artists and

inventors and entrepreneurs raise billions of dollars

for their big ideas.

I always love talking with Yancey.

He's a great combination of big thinker and big dreamer.

He doesn't believe things have to be the way they've always been.

Last fall he summed up his latest thinking in a book called This Could Be Our Future,

a manifesto for a more generous world.

I called him over a pretty funky internet connection

at his house in LA.

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