https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9 Timeline of Kickstarter and founder Perry Chen en-us 2021-03-17 04:09:47 UTC 2026-01-05 12:57:00 UTC hello@padlet.com leizan21 https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318905365 Peer Chen was a struggling musician living in New Orleans, when that didn’t work out he moved back to New York in 2009 and founded and launched Kickstarter.]]> 2021-03-17 04:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318905365 leizan21 https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318920249 Peer Chen along with American media editor Yancey Stricker and American Web designer Charles Adler came together to create Chen’s idea of the website, Kickstarter.]]> 2021-03-17 04:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318920249 leizan21 https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318924805 In order to get the necessary partners with the skill sets to help Chen with his business, he had to live in New York and work out of his apartment or bar he met his friends at. ]]> 2021-03-17 04:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318924805 leizan21 https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318928539 Charles Adler made Chen’s dream a reality with his techy, computer skills and With the help of Strickler and Chen, Kickstarter quickly became the largest Website devoted to crowdfunding.]]> 2021-03-17 04:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318928539 leizan21 https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318939324 The company generated its revenue by assessing a fee of 5 percent from projects that reached or surpassed their funding targets. Projects that did not meet their funding goals within a specified time period did not receive any money pledged to them, and they were not subjected to the fee.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Perry-Chen

]]> 2021-03-17 04:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318939324 leizan21 https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318944384 In 2014, Chen stepped down as chief executive officer of Kickstarter and left the role to co-founder Yancey Strickler. December 2014.]]> 2021-03-17 04:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318944384 leizan21 https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318946738 By 2020, Kickstarter has funded more than a hundred thousand projects from investor donations totaling several billion dollars. The projects ranged from helping individual artists and musicians complete and promote their work to covering the development and production costs of an independent film or a video gaming system.]]> 2021-03-17 04:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/leizan21/hhivf5p4pc6jmfu9/wish/1318946738