Kickstarter’s Co-Founder & CEO Perry Chen On NBC Rock Center

Posted on December 29, 2011 by John

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I had heard of the crowd funding site Kickstarter before, initially from a TechCrunch article on raising money for a project to make an iPod Nano wrist watch band called the TikTok. But I didn’t know much about the company itself and caught this NBC Rock Center segment on the company.

After a backgrounder on Kickstarter,  co-founders Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen are interviewed. However, I was disappointed that Strickler got a lot more airtime and thought, oh, maybe stereotypically, Strickler is the CEO and Perry is the CTO or technical guy. Then I Google’d a little, was surprised that Perry was the CEO. Maybe NBC edited the best parts of the interview and the clips just worked out that Strickler got to speak more. But I thought it was odd Perry didn’t get more airtime.

In any case, congratulations to Kickstarter and all those seeking funds there on their success!

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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