Jack Conte

Hard work works.

— Jack Conte

Art is the meaning of my life.

— Jack Conte

Kid A' is my favorite record.

— Jack Conte

I'm not an entrepreneur.

— Jack Conte

We do love playing live.

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Everybody wants to be able to enjoy beautiful things.

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I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

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No one talks about the epic failures that we all have.

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I don't get a work-life balance.

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The whole idea behind YouTube is accessibility and openness.

— Jack Conte

Know your goals - it will help guide your decisions.

— Jack Conte

Artists don't have to starve any more.

— Jack Conte

I love the idea of creators having leverage and control.

— Jack Conte

I want creators quitting their part-time jobs and being creative for a living.

— Jack Conte

In a perfect world, art and commerce, I think, could be in vacuums and coexist in full purity.

— Jack Conte

I love the idea of creators owning their audience data instead of platforms.

— Jack Conte

There's no reason to abuse the people who give you your monthly pay check.

— Jack Conte

I fail most of the time. As a creator, and as CEO of Patreon, things can't go well all of the time.

— Jack Conte

Patreon is a website that helps artists make money. It's crowdfunding on an ongoing basis for a creator.

— Jack Conte

There are literally tens of thousands of people who create regular content on the web and have millions of followers.

— Jack Conte

Having the opportunity to play music as a career is a dream come true.

— Jack Conte

When I graduated college, I didn't get a job. I started making YouTube videos. I used to spend my days making art,…

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A lot of people hear the Pomplamoose story and think the moral of the story is to post your stuff on YouTube.…

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We're hyper-focused on providing the business infrastructure to allow creators to be successful in growing and running their businesses.

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When I created my Patreon page, I knew the fans of my music would support me. I've met them on tour and…

— Jack Conte

If you want to attract executives who value diversity, then build a system that leads to diverse interviewing teams without 'tokenizing' people.

— Jack Conte

I've started thinking of all my inbox trays almost like a social media feed. I'm not going to get to everything, but…

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In truth, a label is nothing more than a corporation, and it funds artists. Why couldn't another corporation fund an artist? And…

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Medium is like the Instagram of the corporate world. It's the layer that we want everybody to see, but not actually how…

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Within two months of Patreon's launch I starting making $6,000 a month for my work with the support of my 'patrons.' The…

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I guess I kind of don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture. It just…

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I wanted a button on my personal website, on jackconte.com, that said please give me money whenever I make a video if…

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We want Patreon to be safe, and we have no tolerance for hate speech. That's something I think other platforms have been…

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Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage.…

— Jack Conte

I will probably get creamed for saying this, but as a CEO, I've felt a little scared to talk about diversity and…

— Jack Conte

I mean, when I went to go get a loan as a creator, when I went to get a loan from the…

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The problem that we're solving is: You're a creator, and you're reaching thousands of people, or hundreds of thousands or millions of…

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People are not machines. And we have to respect that.

— Jack Conte

I really like incorporating noise music into pop.

— Jack Conte

We get to make the music that we love.

— Jack Conte