Kickstarter and Platforms Are the Right Idea

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Jack decided he wanted to make a movie but didn't want to use kickstarter. He sketched out the idea on 14 pieces of printer paper with a horrible design. Sam Yam, Jack's former roommate was an engineer who had previously founded and sold the company Adworld In short, he seemed like the right co-founder for the job When I called it my freshman year roommate Sam Jack said: "I'm just going to start making music"

Building a business means making mistakes. Lots of them. But how you’re wrong isn’t always obvious. Jack Conte has learned this lesson as a working musician — and while scaling Patreon into a company worth $4b. In Part One of a two-part series, you’ll hear how Jack wrote his own Wrongness Playbook, as he learned to answer questions like: If something isn’t working, is it time to trust your instincts? Or is there critical feedback you’ve been ignoring?

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