Jack Conte
19 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2021 by Jack Conte · across every show →
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Conte: Patreon's first content policy took two months and totaled 40 pages
“He built these
Jack Conte: Very massive content policy and trust and safety and enforcement systems, and he worked with us for a period of two months to draft the first version of what became Patreon's content policy, which was, turned out to be about 40 page…”
Jan 11, 2021 positive
Conte: Patreon's growth was primarily driven by a creator viral cycle
“Some of the people who watched my video were creators themselves, and when they landed on my Patreon page, and they saw this random middle-of-the-road YouTuber making six figures, they had that same mind-blow moment that I had had two years before when Lauren …”
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Conte: Creator monetization economics failed to keep up with distribution technology
“The economics of that failed to evolve with the distribution technology. So like the distribution happened first, and the economic systems to support that didn't keep up. And so we were in this horrible phase where essentially artists are working for free.”
Jan 11, 2021 neutral
Jan 11, 2021 positive
Jack Conte earned over $100K annualized within two months of Patreon's launch
“Within the first couple weeks, I passed 5000 dollars a month. And then soon after that, it was, yeah, it was even more. And at the time, I was making maybe two videos a month. So, you know, suddenly, like very suddenly, within two months, I went from draining …”
Jan 16, 2025
Jack Conte: Breaking through online is easier today, but retention is harder
“I actually think it's easier to break through now. I think it's harder to stick. But I think it's easier to break. And what I've seen is, you know, the internet has really shifted away from the follower model. And it's shifted into an interest-based model that…”
Jan 16, 2025
Conte: Product-market fit comes from iteration speed, not strategy
“I found the right strategy for finding product market fit is actually no strategy at all. It's speed of iteration. Like your intuition is actually going to be right in some areas and wrong in some areas. And what matters most is getting through the mistakes so…”
Jan 16, 2025
Jack Conte: Founders must shift from consensus to internal conviction
“There comes a point where you have pretty good judgment, you've seen a bunch of things before, and rather than cross-indexing a bunch of different disparate opinions, if I could go back in time, I'd tell myself, figure out what you want to do, what kind of com…”
Jan 16, 2025 positive
Jack Conte: Two-thirds of Patreon payment volume goes to middle-class creators
“About two-thirds of our payments volume is not going to the, like, you know, super top-of-market creatorists, like the super rich and famous creators. It's going to what we call, I don't like the term, but, like, some people call it, like, the creative middle …”