Jack Conte
| Jack Conte Website (Singer,businessman) | |
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| Born | July 12, 1984 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
Patreon funder, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2020. Started evicting independent media from platform in 2020. | |
Jack Conte is an American businessman and founder of Patreon. He prefers to promote an image of himself as a musician, which he was before he started the company.[1]
On May 7, 2013, Conte announced the launch of Patreon, a crowdfunding venture that lets content creators turn their fans into paying subscribers, together with co-founder Samuel Yam [2] By 2021, the company was valued at $4 billion, despite still not being profitable[3] By then, Patreon had started freezing donations to independent media going through the company.
The World Economic Forum picked him as a Young Global Leader in 2020.
References
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2018/02/13/digital-medici-how-this-musician-turned-entrepreneur-plans-to-save-creators-from-advertising/#43804f871313
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ02alEkbLw}
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/patreons-valuation-triples-to-4-billion-as-creators-and-fans-flock-to-platform-11617762374