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Danae Ringelman

Co-Owner, Huso Lodge & Farm · 1 appearance on the record.

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Danae Ringelmann co-founded Indiegogo in 2008 to democratize fundraising, pioneering perks-based crowdfunding. She later transitioned from executive leadership at Indiegogo to co-owning and running Huso Lodge & Farm in Norway, alongside startup advisory work.

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1 assertion · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Danae argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Indiegogo operated without raising outside funding for three years
“We actually didn't raise a dime for, was it four years? Three years.”
Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 27:14 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

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Insight
Ringelman: Traditional gatekeeper financing locks out audience demand
“And that was the moment that I realized that there was A huge room of people that wanted this thing to happen, yet they didn't have the power to make it happen, and it was all dependent on one person to say yes. And that was the inequity that drove me to even…”
Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 15:22 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
Disclosure
Ringelman: Curating campaigns would violate Indiegogo's open platform mission
“Philosophically, we couldn't become the gatekeeper. Otherwise, what's the point of all of this?”
Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 43:05 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
Disclosure
Ringelman: Indiegogo initially explored equity investments and SEC exemptions
“We also did explore, is there any SEC loopholes we could get around? So at the, and when we were first starting, we were actually, we're thinking investments, like full on investment.”
Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 24:01 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
Disclosure
Indiegogo co-founders each committed $30,000 of their own money to launch
“I remember each of us committing 30,000 dollars of our own money, which was a big chunk of our savings, or at least for me.”
Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 27:03 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
Disclosure
Danae Ringelman's original business school idea was a democratic voting fund
“What drove me back to business school was to start something that would make the funding process more democratic. And my initial idea was a fund, actually, with a democratic twist. Where the investors could be lots of people putting a little bit in. And then t…”
Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 15:56 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever
Assertion Supported
Indiegogo operated without raising outside funding for three years
“We actually didn't raise a dime for, was it four years? Three years.”
Danae Ringelman Dec 15, 2025 ▶ 27:14 93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
93 Rejections, One Revolution: How Indiegogo Changed Crowdfunding Forever Dec 15, 2025 16m
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