Jack Conte

We, the creative class, are finding ways to make a living making music, drawing webcomics, writing articles, coding games, recording podcasts. Most…

— Jack Conte

Everybody wants to be able to enjoy beautiful things.

— Jack Conte

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

— Jack Conte

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

— Jack Conte

We built Patreon to be an open, flexible platform. It's a tool. Why shouldn't we open it up to people who find…

— Jack Conte

Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business.

— Jack Conte

Art is one of those few legal monopolies. If you want to listen to Prince, Mick Jagger doesn't do. Nothing else in…

— Jack Conte

I think it was iTunes that first proved that people would spend money to get things they really wanted.

— Jack Conte

Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional…

— Jack Conte

Patreon is here to give control back to artists so it doesn't need to be a hard conversation when a kid tells…

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On the Internet, it's not just content that's king. It's regular content. But models like Kickstarter don't work for regular content. And…

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The epic failures make up the journey along the way to getting the wins.

— Jack Conte

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

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

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Art is the meaning of my life.

— Jack Conte

If you're a really good community manager, that's highly predictive of your success on Patreon.

— Jack Conte

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

— Jack Conte

I'm not an entrepreneur.

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I loved the 'Sister Act 2' soundtrack.

— Jack Conte

In YouTube's early days, my band Pomplamoose was making a living by releasing videos on it, which drove iTunes sales. And because…

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Building habits is important. One of mine is a weird, small thing, but it's very helpful: I stop eating just before I'm…

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Artists don't have to starve any more.

— Jack Conte

It was so weird to see such a discrepancy between the value that I feel like I'm giving to the world and…

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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

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

— Jack Conte