Kickstarter cofounder Yancey Strickler wants creative work to be a financially stable career. His proposal? A new legal structure designed to protect and support artists.
About Yancey Strickler
Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur focused on supporting artists and creative people. He is the cofounder of Kickstarter, the Creative Independent, Metalabel, the Dark Forest Collective and Artist Corporations, a project aiming to create a new legal structure for creative work. He's the author of This Could Be Our Future, The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet and On the Creative Life.
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