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There’s more to life than profit

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Origins of Kickstarter

The core idea behind Kickstarter is allowing creative ideas to exist without any hope of profit. Creating the profit motivation from behind deciding what gets funded would be one of their things. But changing the justification for a creative works existence from it might make someone money to just people care about it was an obvious move, they say.

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