Kickstarter: Perry Chen
Angie Wang for NPR
In the early 2000s, Perry Chen was trying to put on a concert in New Orleans when he thought, what if fans could fund this in advance?
His idea didn't work at the time, but he and his co-founders spent the next eight years refining the concept of crowdfunding creative projects.
Today Kickstarter has funded over 155,000 projects worldwide.
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