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In early December 2021, employees at the crowdfunding startup Kickstarter got news of a windfall: An investor group wanted to buy some of their shares. The news came as a surprise.
Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation [2] based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. [3]
Everette Taylor (born June 23, 1989) is an American business executive. He has been the CEO of Kickstarter since September 2022, and was CMO of Artsy, and founder of ET Enterprises which includes the marketing firm MiliSense, social media software company PopSocial, ArtX and GrowthHackers.
Grepper was a product developer from Portland, Oregon. He first tried to raise funding for the product in November 2013 but fell short of the $125,000 goal and failed to secure any funding. He launched a second campaign on July 8, 2014, and critics attribute the success of the second Kickstarter campaign to the timing. [4]
When the campaign closed, it was one of the most quickly funded in Kickstarter history, and was the most funded Kickstarter for TV and film projects. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced that they had acquired the streaming rights to The Legend of Vox Machina , and had commissioned 14 additional episodes (two additional ...
The Zano was a failed Kickstarter project created by Torquing Group to create a remote-control quadcopter drone with a high-definition camera. After receiving over three million dollars from crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the team was unable to create a product that matched their original description, and eventually filed for bankruptcy after delivering around 600 partially functional drones.
The debut trailer for Children of Infinity launched on April 4, 2024 on GameSpot, [23] leading to a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter on April 16, 2024, which has ended on May 18, 2024, collecting more than 650 000$. [1] [26] The game reached its crowdfunding target in less than four hours. [27]
Perry Chen (born () July 15, 1976) is an American entrepreneur best known for being the creator and principal founder of Kickstarter, the online crowdfunding platform for creative projects. He came up with the idea for Kickstarter in 2001 [1] and launched it in 2009 along with co-founders Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler. [2]