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10 quotes by Perry Chen

Perry Chen is a New York City-based artist best known for being the creator of the funding platform Kickstarter. In 2010, Chen was selected as a TED Fellow, and in 2014, he was a resident of Laboratorio para la Ciudad in Mexico City and also exhibited in the New Museum's First Look online exhibition program with the project Computers in Crisis. In 2001, he co-founded the Southfirst gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Chen was listed by Fast Company...
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Video is so primal. When you can hear a person talking about the project, and can see his or her passion, it is unbelievably powerful. I don't... →

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I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.

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Kickstarter was already up and going when I got the Fellowship. Spending time with the other Fellows was about camaraderie, and I talked to a lot of... →

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I wonder if people really know what the definition of crowd-funding is. Or, if there's even an agreed upon definition of what it is.

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For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was... →

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The kind of system Kickstarter uses has been used for hundreds of years. Unlike Medici-style patronage, where the richest people in town give large... →

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We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether... →

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I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

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Kickstarter has been such a heads-down thing.

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I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social... →

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