creators

“It's a little over 200,000, yeah, who are getting paid.”

“If you don't have an audience actually Patreon doesn't work so well for you at all, and so I think it's totally fair to, like, point that out, and I actually think it's important to be honest about that. Like, we want to be honest with that. If somebody expect…”

“I think a lot of people can make money right now in the creator economy, but to make a career, I think is extremely challenging. And I think it's just like any other entrepreneurial venture. And I think it's really important to recognize that the term creators…”

“I would say that a large part of starting out is thinking about an audience and a value prop and thinking, here's the people I want to make content for. What do I want them to feel? How do I want to transform them?”

“I think the really interesting thing about some of these creators that reach millions and millions and millions of people, their content transcends language.”

“The vast majority of people who are working really hard to make interesting content that entertains people, or educates people, or captures people's attention, are making less than, you know, 15 dollars an hour or something.”

“And so our interest is really in those tens of thousands of creators who will be on that journey if only we have better monetization tools.”

“You know, it, it's almost like a career as a professional athlete. It lasts a couple or three years and then you're 30 years old and you've only ever Done one thing, and you, it's hard to figure out what to do next.”

“People who are successful are not doing it because they love the content, or they care about the content, or they want the content to make sense. They're doing it to gain the system.”

“Building a community as a founder is different than building community as a creator. There are similarities, but I think it would be a mistake to assume it's one for one”