Patreon Founder Jack Conti - I Need to Be Me

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Patreon founder Jack Conti says transparency with the fan community was mission critical to the company and business. If you're going to accept fan payments, you've got to have how much you're earning on your creator page,. On my page, it literally said, Jack Conti, $5,000 per month, and then underneath it had the number of patrons. And this was dogmatic for me. This is something Jack brings to each major decision he makes as a founder.

When is it time to double down on your instincts, and when is it time to open yourself up to feedback? Sometimes it comes down to a hard call… that you might get totally wrong. In Part Two of our episode with Patreon’s Jack Conte, you’ll hear how he was able to raise capital by telling his authentic story after a series of pitches that went disastrously wrong! And you’ll hear how his worst mistake as a founder helped him reconnect with Patreon’s mission and community, and build Patreon into a $4B company. How can being wrong accelerate your business? It takes running at the solution with insatiable curiosity.

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