Jack Conte

Jack Conte is a musician, filmmaker, half of Pomplamoose, and a cofounder at Patreon, a community and funding platform dedicated to helping creators make a living. Patreon has raised over $47 million to date from a series of venture capital firms and angels, and it's currently sending millions of dollars per month to creators around the world. As a musician and filmmaker, Jack’s catalog of videos on YouTube has amassed over 120 million views. He used to spend his days in a converted dog kennel/recording studio in Sonoma County but is now in full-time CEO mode at the Patreon Command Center in San Francisco. He also loves working with robots.

Radar

Funding the creative economy

October 10, 2016

Jack Conte, musician and co-founder of Patreon, talks about crowdsourced patronage and how it's providing steady income for creative professionals.