Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly be any more open or public about my role as CEO at Patreon. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
Concentrate on making beautiful things. Everything else will follow. — Jack Conte Beautiful Copy Share Image
I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising. — Jack Conte Blues Copy Share Image
I can't see any possible future where there isn't a media site that isn't paired with crowdfunding. — Jack Conte Future Copy Share Image
If you're a really good community manager, that's highly predictive of your success on Patreon. — Jack Conte Community Copy Share Image
We're not trying to get 2 billion people on Patreon to compete with YouTube. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
One lesson I learned with Pomplamoose is that there will always be haters. Part of achieving some level of success is learning… — Jack Conte Anger Copy Share Image
If your company is mostly men, make sure to have women on the interview team. While you don't want to 'tokenize' someone… — Jack Conte Business Copy Share Image
How can you have a site where there are millions of people enjoying content from millions of creators and there's no direct… — Jack Conte Creators Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about membership is that it's, by its nature, a very emotional transaction. It's a tie to an artist. It… — Jack Conte Art Copy Share Image
In YouTube's early days, my band Pomplamoose was making a living by releasing videos on it, which drove iTunes sales. And because… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I don't love using synthesizers, but I do use synthesizers. I'm more inspired by acoustic instruments - as long as there's something… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
It was so weird to see such a discrepancy between the value that I feel like I'm giving to the world and… — Jack Conte Giving Copy Share Image
Patreon is here to give control back to artists so it doesn't need to be a hard conversation when a kid tells… — Jack Conte Art Copy Share Image
Ultimately, our competitive advantage is that we're the most creator-first company on the planet. — Jack Conte Advantage Copy Share Image
At the end of almost every video in my YouTube catalog since Patreon's launch, I talk about my work at the company. — Jack Conte Business Copy Share Image
Building habits is important. One of mine is a weird, small thing, but it's very helpful: I stop eating just before I'm… — Jack Conte Day Copy Share Image
What I will say about crypto and NFTs in general is I really love the idea of creators owning their media and… — Jack Conte Crypto Copy Share Image
