Patreon

“And some of his investments include the likes of the wildly popular ride-sharing app Lyft, the incredible Patreon, now delivering two million a month to creators, and Change.org, which now has over eighty million users.”

“I would say that Jack Conti at Patreon is in fresh in my mind right now because we had a board meeting recently, but Jack is a musician, right? His passion for what he's doing at Patreon to enable creators to not live hand to mouth, but actually have a platfor…”

“You get amazing companies like Substack and Patreon and other creator-led companies that allow the creator to make more money than they could in these bloated institutions.”

“We built up a lot of confidence that shifting from crowdfunding to membership, which is what Patreon is now, was sort of the right move.”

“The mistakes that we made at Patreon were typically just looking at numbers and not actually, and thinking, oh, these numbers say that if we do this, it's in the best interest of creators, it's going to work great. Like we know what our bounding boxes and our …”

“When you work with creators, they have the biggest and loudest megaphones on the internet. And you really learn to respect their input into the product building process and decision-making.”

“Patreon, trying to, it's hard to remember the exact percentages, but like, Patreon, you know, is bigger than merch, partially because we just haven't made that much new merch recently but there's always, you know, there's always patrons, new patrons and speaki…”