Kickstarter: Perry Chen

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the early 2000s, Perry Chen was trying to put on a concert in New Orleans when he thought, what if fans could fund this in advance? His idea didn't work at the time, but he and his co-founders spent the next eight years refining the concept of crowd-funding creative projects. Today Kickstarter has funded over 125,000 projects worldwide. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Kristel Gordon invented a solution for easily stuffing a duvet into its cover – it's called Duvaid. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:51.0	Where are you getting stressed out that somebody else is going to beat you to the punch and do the same thing?
1:00.0	I think that certainly comes to mind, but I think there's also like, we couldn't have tried to go any faster.
1:06.0	There was just not that much in our control.
1:09.0	We didn't have a lot of money, we didn't have a lot of influence, we didn't have a lot of connections.
1:13.0	So we're moving as fast as we could, and that's kind of as much as you can do.
1:19.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
1:25.0	A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
1:31.0	I'm GuyRaz, and on today's show, How Perry Chan built Kickstarter and with it, the culture of crowdfunding ideas that might have never gotten off the ground.
1:46.0	You know, there's a kind of mythical narrative around startups, especially if we're talking about tech startups.
2:00.0	And it goes something like this.
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