Future Commerce Podcast: eCommerce, DTC and Retail Strategy

The Dark Forest of Creative Capital

Dec 6, 2024

In this engaging discussion, Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter and creator of Metalabel, shares his vision for a future where artists lead society. He argues that in a few decades, creatives will not just influence culture but also control capital. Yancey highlights the current exclusion of artists from capitalism and the need for a supportive structure to empower them. He discusses the innovative MetaLabel platform and a new project aimed at transforming the creative economy, making it a space where artists thrive and are fairly compensated.

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Yancey Strickler

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Quick takeaways

Yancey Strickler emphasizes the transformation of the creative economy, predicting that artists will become the powerful leaders of society in the future.

Through his project MetaLabel, Strickler advocates for decentralized platforms that promote communal creativity and equitable sharing among creators, reshaping cultural production.

Deep dives

Exploring Modern Philosophy and Entrepreneurship

The episode features a conversation with Yancey Strickler, who identifies as both a writer and an entrepreneur, emphasizing the intersection of creativity and practical action. Strickler discusses his journey with crowdfunding through Kickstarter, highlighting how the introduction of a functional platform made the concept easily understood. By examining the relationship between form and user experience, he reflects on the idea that certain concepts need a physical representation to resonate with people, which he perceives as an empowering structure for creativity. This exploration of form leads him to believe in fostering environments that allow individuals to connect and collaborate, ultimately unlocking their latent potential.

Intro

3min

The Impact of Form on Creativity and Community

13min

Innovating Digital Transactions

6min

Empowering Creatives in a New Era

10min

Evolving Creativity and Commerce in the Digital Age

3min

The Future of Creative Commerce

14min

Exploring Collective Collaboration in Business

2min

Yancey Strickler on Metalabel, Digital Scarcity, and the Coming Creative Revolution

Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler unveils his vision of a radical economic future where artists become society's power brokers. Through Metalabel, he's building the infrastructure for collective commerce and creative ownership that could transform how we value and exchange culture.

“In 50 years, artists won't just influence culture—they'll control capital”

Key takeaways:

{00:13:10} - “The concept of art and creativity that we think of today that we take as givens that we're like, “Oh my God, I have to promote my drop again today,” are incredibly modern inventions.” - Yancey
{00:24;51] - “I believe {this project} will produce a world where 50 or 60 years from now, artists and creative people are the most powerful members of society. They will have the greatest influence. They will have the greatest access to wealth. They will be the most powerful people in society, and this is a structure by which that will occur. And that's a project we'll announce next year.” - Yancey
{00:26:20} - “We all want to be able to homestead and have our own spaces that are ours, but we also want to be part of spaces where we can be discovered. And so how can our catalogs exist in a world like that? Artists right now are excluded from capitalism. Let's change that.” - Yancey
{00:28:53} - “People are still just looking in the dead channel, the dying channels…where we've been trained to look for what is new and what matters. And the answer is that that's not where those things are happening now.” - Yancey
{00:38:09} - “Anyone who's 20 years old today, born and raised on the Internet, there's just like a mentality, a metamodern, just flat openness, super well-curated sort of vibe that I just think lends itself quite well to operating very specific, but I think very successful, small to medium-sized creative businesses.” - Yancey

Associated Links:

Pre-order the LORE Journal by Future Commerce on Metalabel
Connect with Yancey Strickler and learn more about Metalabel
The Dark Forest Collective
Kirby Ferguson’s New York Times piece, Is Creativity Dead?
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