Sam Yam (Patreon) - Surviving the Startup Grind
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Video Series
English - January 22, 2020 10:01 - 45 minutes - 2.58 MB Video - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsCourses Education Business entrepreneurship stanford stvp Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 2013, Sam Yam teamed up with his former Stanford roommate Jack Conte to create Patreon, a platform that connects content creators with members who provide recurring revenue. As co-founder and CTO, Yam built Patreon into a service that has funded more than one hundred thousand creatives, channelling more than one billion dollars to musicians, podcasters, and artists of all kinds. He describes the intense grind of scaling Patreon and looks at three central challenges that face most entrepreneurs, then focuses in on what makes the entrepreneurial path worth it.