Jack Conte Quotes

Jack Conte

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 12, 1984

I wanted a button on my personal website, on jackconte.com, that said please give me money whenever I make a video if you want to help me keep making videos. Seconds after I thought of that, I thought: 'Well, gee, that's something a lot of my friends would like, too.'

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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.

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

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

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When I graduated college, I didn't get a job. I started making YouTube videos. I used to spend my days making art, and I love that. And, if I'm being honest, what's the hardest thing? I think it's just becoming a CEO from this path of being a YouTuber.

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I work on myself all the time, and I'm constantly trying to learn and falling on my face all the time.

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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 people, and you're not getting paid, you don't have a monthly paycheck. What we're not is a distribution platform. We're not a place to find brand new fans if you don't have an audience yet for your work.

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Patreon, is, has been and will continue to be a creator-centric organization.

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It's so embarrassing to just not feel valued as a creative person.

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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. It was a person who made great stuff. And then an institution, a religious institution, a government, a wealthy individual, would pay that person to go make more of that.

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

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I mean, when I went to go get a loan as a creator, when I went to get a loan from the bank, I was in escrow for 90 days. The bank wouldn't give me a loan when I tried to buy a house, because they didn't understand how I made money. They said, 'Send us your pay stubs from your job.' I said, ' What are pay stubs?' because I didn't have a job.

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

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Kickstarter is not appropriate for a blogger who writes weekly articles - he doesn't need a big chunk of money, and he has no big project to use it for. He needs monthly income, and Patreon brings crowd funding away from singular one-off projects and into the realm of regular content creation.

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I love the idea of creators having leverage and control.

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

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I love the idea of shifting power away from institutions and toward individual creative people.

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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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Ultimately, our competitive advantage is that we're the most creator-first company on the planet.

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The reality is Patreon needs to build new businesses and new services and new revenue lines in order to build a sustainable business.

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