Featured Session: A Conversation with Jack Conte
Summary
Jack Conte is CEO and co-founder of Patreon, a media and community platform where creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive works and experiences. He founded Patreon in 2013 with Sam Yam (CTO), driven by the belief that creators should be paid for the value they provide to the world. Jack leads the team on their mission to build tools that give Patreon’s 300,000+ creators freedom, independence and ownership over their work and the communities they build. Since launching, Patreon has sent over $10 billion to creators. As a filmmaker and touring musician in the bands Pomplamoose and Scary Pockets, Jack has a deep understanding of and appreciation for creators. That passion is the driving force in the work Patreon is doing to usher in a new creative economy that puts the power back in creators’ hands.
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- Jack Conte
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