Kickstarter: Perry Chen
How I Built This with Guy Raz
English - July 31, 2017 04:01 - 43 minutes - ★★★★★ - 29.2K ratingsBusiness business entrepreneurship entrepreneur health interview marketing leadership finance startups productivity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.