Perry Chen Quotes

Perry Chen — American Businessman

Perry Chen is a New York City-based artist best known for being the creator of the funding platform Kickstarter, which he launched in 2009 along with co-founders Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler... (wikipedia)

We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.

Kickstarter was already up and going when I got the Fellowship. Spending time with the other Fellows was about camaraderie, and I talked to a lot of amazing and creative people.

Video is so primal. When you can hear a person talking about the project, and can see his or her passion, it is unbelievably powerful. I don't want to make it seem like projects without a video fail.

I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

I wonder if people really know what the definition of crowd-funding is. Or, if there's even an agreed upon definition of what it is.