Get in touch with technology with Tech Stuff. I am your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an

executive producer at How Stuff Works and I love all things Tech and today

we're going to continue our discussion about companies and services that launched

after Tech Stuff became a podcast and just kind of get perspective on what has happened since

we started this show 10 years ago.

If you haven't heard part one of this series,

you should probably do that,

because we're going to start right back up where we left off.

And away we go. Another thing that is

younger than tech stuff is Kickstarter. And boy, this is a big one.

Kickstarter launched in 2009.

It was co-founded by Yancey Strickler, Perry Chen, and Charles Adler, and the concept

behind it is pretty simple.

Creators pitch a project and set a financial goal.

And if it's picked by Kickstarter, if it meets the requirements that

Kickstarter sets and doesn't violate any rules, it can then go up on the page.

And you choose a fundraising campaign duration,

typically a month is very common.

They then invite people to come and contribute money to this campaign for whatever it might be.

And often it's in return for promise deliverables should the campaign fund.

Campaigns are an all or nothing affair on Kickstarter.

So if the campaign funds,

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