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Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop Apr 20, 2020 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 50:47 Rich Fulop We, you know, we wanted to just please the customer, so we had six patterns with, uh, with our Kickstarter.
  • ▶ 51:46 Rich Fulop Oh yeah, we had to, because we, we really wanted to launch the business, um, in, uh, e-com and, you know, have a real standalone business, not just the Kickstarter flash in the pan, and we knew time was not on our side because we had… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:03 Rich Fulop Yeah, in terms of the growth, uh, so we did, including the Kickstarter in 2014, we did about four or 500,002 1015 was two million for the year, and then for the year of 2016 it jumped to about twenty million or so.

Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018) Mar 9, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:42 Guy Raz If you use Instacart or Lyft or Kickstarter, or even if you shop online at Target, you're using Stripe.
  • ▶ 38:43 Guy Raz And then Kirby did a Kickstarter campaign about four years ago.

M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur Feb 3, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:11:33 Taylor Mali He said, oh, you know what, you ought to start a Kickstarter campaign. 2 times in the scene

Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018) Dec 30, 2019 · 1 mention

Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney Nov 25, 2019 · 1 mention

Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017) Aug 19, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:19 Guy Raz Corinne then started a Kickstarter campaign, raised 48,000 dollars, and used the money to blend her first bottle of scotch.

Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018) Aug 12, 2019 · 4 mentions

Shopify: Tobias Lütke Aug 5, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:02:47 Guy Raz A Kickstarter campaign, finding a manufacturer, and delivering the first orders.

Dyson: James Dyson (2018) Jul 22, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:39 Guy Raz But by the end of 2014, with the help of 20,000 dollars that he raised on Kickstarter, Mike found a factory in China to make his first run of iPhone five and five S cases with lens caps, and then

Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman Jun 24, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 57:17 Liz Bales Day four of Kickstarter, when we met our goal, we all were on the phone together when we hit the number, and that was super fun.

Allbirds: Tim Brown & Joey Zwillinger Jun 10, 2019 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 27:10 Tim Brown And, ah, but I got to the end of that course, and, ah, you know, I flew back to, to London after my time at Kellogg and decided I was going to launch, um, wool shoes on Kickstarter.
  • ▶ 27:20 Guy Raz Okay, but so, to do something on Kickstarter, which you did in 2014, but to do something on Kickstarter, you need to have the prototype, you need to have a lot of things. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:11 Guy Raz So it's 2014, and Tim Brown has launched his idea for a new kind of wool shoe on Kickstarter. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:08 Guy Raz So Tim, I read that after the Kickstarter release, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:06:19 Guy Raz And then Kirby did a Kickstarter campaign about three years ago.

Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison May 27, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:00 Guy Raz Prerak and his friends went onto Kickstarter, and they raised about 15,000 dollars from 18 different countries. 2 times in the scene

Zappos: Tony Hsieh (2017) May 20, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:58 Guy Raz So they launched a Kickstarter that April and made 25,000 dollars in just the first day. 2 times in the scene

Live Episode! Peloton: John Foley Apr 29, 2019 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 31:13 Guy Raz But you, around that time, you had to do a Kickstarter. 8 times in the scene

Five Guys: Jerry Murrell (2019) Jan 14, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 34:55 Guy Raz She then launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise about 12,000 dollars, and for a while it looked like she wasn't going to make her goal. 4 times in the scene

Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018) Dec 31, 2018 · 42 mentions

  • ▶ 0:35 Guy Raz He launched Kickstarter in 2009, and a year later, Time named it one of the best inventions of the year. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:32 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Perry Chen built Kickstarter, and with it, a culture of crowdfunding ideas that might have never gotten off the ground.
  • ▶ 2:21 Guy Raz This is the story of Kickstarter, and it did, of course, start with an idea. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:17 Guy Raz Did the idea of Kickstarter come to you at that time?
  • ▶ 9:18 Perry Chen I knew that I was going to pursue Kickstarter. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:22 Perry Chen And so she connected us, and we went and had a drink at a bar, and I, and I talked to him about the idea, and, and, ah, a few months later, he invested a little bit of money, and that was our first investor, and, you know, it was only two… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:08 Guy Raz So, so Kickstarter would get five percent.
  • ▶ 18:08 Guy Raz When we come back, the opportunities Kickstarter had to grow into a much bigger company, and why Perry Chen decided not to pursue any of them.
  • ▶ 18:43 Guy Raz So as Perry and his cofounders continued to make slow progress on Kickstarter, competitors began to appear. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:35 Guy Raz How did people even find out about Kickstarter? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:54 Guy Raz You needed to raise money to presumably hire people and to expand Kickstarter, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:53 Guy Raz And how did you, I mean, I guess, you know, as Kickstarter became more and more popular, a lot of, um, companies that were making sort of gadgets and tech things 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:53 Guy Raz How much money has, in total, do you think, have Kickstarter projects raised? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:49 Guy Raz Perry Chen, he's the co-founder of Kickstarter. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:27 Guy Raz When we last heard from Dustin, he and his partner were trying to fulfill orders from a Kickstarter campaign that had raised over a quarter of a million dollars, and that turned out to be kind of a nightmare.

ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd Dec 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:50 Guy Raz And Helene and Ofer took some of these videos and used them to launch a Kickstarter campaign.

Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner Oct 1, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 56:35 Guy Raz So they took this idea and put it up on Kickstarter. 2 times in the scene

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown Sep 17, 2018 · 4 mentions

TRX: Randy Hetrick (2018) Aug 27, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:40 Guy Raz So Matt and Corey raised 22,000 dollars on Kickstarter and moved Chups out of their kitchen and into a shared commercial space in D.C.

Steve Madden: Steve Madden Jul 16, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:59 Guy Raz And a few weeks later, he launched a Kickstarter campaign, and people were really into it. 2 times in the scene

Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson Jun 18, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:44 Guy Raz But by the end of 2014, with the help of 20,000 dollars that he raised on Kickstarter,

Honest Tea: Seth Goldman (2017) Jun 11, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:46 Guy Raz She put her drawings online, she launched a Kickstarter campaign, and she raised 30,000 bucks. 2 times in the scene

Bob's Red Mill: Bob Moore May 21, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 42:39 Guy Raz So they launched a Kickstarter that April and made 25,000 dollars in just the first day. 2 times in the scene

Stripe: Patrick and John Collison May 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:46 Guy Raz If you use Instacart or Lyft or Kickstarter, or even if you shop online at Target, you're using Stripe.

Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine Apr 16, 2018 · 1 mention

Dell Computers: Michael Dell Jan 29, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 46:01 Guy Raz She then launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise about 12,000 dollars, and for a while it looked like she wasn't going to make her goal. 4 times in the scene

Tom's Of Maine: Tom Chappell Dec 11, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:00 Guy Raz And just last month, he raised 8000 dollars on Kickstarter and has about 200 bow ties ready to go for Christmas.

Instagram: Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (2017) Nov 13, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:19 Guy Raz And his concept was so popular that he raised half a million bucks on Kickstarter, and then found two factories in Asia to make the bikes.

The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice Karman Sep 18, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:24 Guy Raz Just before they graduated business school, Daniel, Elaine, and their two other partners launched a Kickstarter campaign that raised 350,000 dollars.

Barre3: Sadie Lincoln Sep 11, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 45:53 Guy Raz So Matt and Corey raised 22,000 dollars on Kickstarter and moved Chops out of their kitchen and into a shared commercial space in D.C.

Radio One: Cathy Hughes (2017) Aug 14, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:45 Guy Raz Since we last spoke with Mike, he's raised over a million dollars on Kickstarter, and he's been selling his device, which

Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman Aug 7, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 52:35 Guy Raz Last year, Dustin and his partner, Nick, decided to launch a Kickstarter to get the whole business going.

Kickstarter: Perry Chen Jul 31, 2017 · 39 mentions

  • ▶ 1:10 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Carrie Chen built Kickstarter, and with it, a culture of crowdfunding ideas that might have never gotten off the ground. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:29 Guy Raz This is Perry Chen, one of the co-founders of Kickstarter.
  • ▶ 5:54 Guy Raz Did the idea of Kickstarter come to you at that time?
  • ▶ 8:55 Perry Chen I, I knew that I was going to pursue Kickstarter.
  • ▶ 13:46 Guy Raz Was it already called Kickstarter at that point?
  • ▶ 14:46 Guy Raz So, so Kickstarter would get five percent.
  • ▶ 17:46 Guy Raz When we come back, the opportunities Kickstarter had to grow into a much bigger company, and why Perry Chen decided not to pursue any of them.
  • ▶ 18:21 Guy Raz So as Perry and his co-founders continued to make slow progress on Kickstarter, competitors began to appear. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:12 Guy Raz How did people even find out about Kickstarter? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:32 Guy Raz You needed to raise money to, presumably, to hire people and to expand Kickstarter, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:26 Perry Chen And that was really because, you know, we saw that there was a danger of people kind of approaching Kickstarter and things that were being put up there like a new product. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:30 Guy Raz How much money has, in total, do you think, have Kickstarter projects raised? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:54 Guy Raz The idea, the model of Kickstarter is just 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:27 Guy Raz Perry Chen is the co-founder of Kickstarter. 2 times in the scene

TRX: Randy Hetrick Jun 26, 2017 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 40:21 Guy Raz And then to launch a Kickstarter campaign, she thought, I know, 4 times in the scene

Instacart: Apoorva Mehta Apr 10, 2017 · 1 mention

Lyft: John Zimmer Feb 13, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:12 Guy Raz She put her drawings online, she launched a Kickstarter campaign, and she raised 30,000 bucks. 2 times in the scene

Zappos: Tony Hsieh Jan 23, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:52 Guy Raz And his concept was so popular that he raised half a million bucks on Kickstarter, and then found two factories in Asia to make the bikes.

Drybar: Alli Webb Jan 9, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:32 Guy Raz And to get it off the ground, Mike and his partners actually raised over a million dollars on Kickstarter.

Music Mogul: L.A. Reid Nov 7, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:05 Guy Raz He already owes his Kickstarter backers 1339 cups of coffee.
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