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Jack Conte
American musician and entrepreneur From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jack Conte (/ˈkɒnti/; born July 12, 1984) is an American musician and co-founder and CEO of Patreon.[2] He and his wife Nataly Dawn comprise the musical duo Pomplamoose,[3] and he is co-leader of the band Scary Pockets and founder of the band Magaziine.
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Conte began his career as a video game voice actor, contributing the voice for all teen male sims in the 2004 bestseller The Sims 2.[4][5]
Conte created his YouTube channel in 2007 to upload music videos inspired by the Dogme 95 movement.[6] He gained widespread attention when his video Yeah Yeah Yeah was featured on YouTube's front page.[7] Most of Conte's music videos follow a format called "VideoSongs", defined by two rules: no lip-syncing for instruments or voice ("what you see is what you hear") and no hidden sounds ("if you hear it, at some point you see it").[8][9]
In 2008, Conte formed the band Pomplamoose with Nataly Dawn, who later became his wife.[10] The band garnered significant fan support, primarily through their YouTube videos.[11][12]
Much of Conte's work has been met with positive reviews, citing evocative lyrics in Sleep in Color[7] and creative delivery of his VideoSongs.[13] However, Conte's music was reviewed less favorably by Amplifier: "Hints of Conor Oberst, Radiohead, Patrick Watson, contemporary punk rock (screamo), radio power pop, and incalculable other singer songwriters are more than borrowed, making for a short mishmash of electro rock."[14]
On May 7, 2013, Conte announced the launch of Patreon with co-founder Samuel Yam. Conte has compared his company to Kickstarter, but "for people who release stuff on a regular basis."[15]
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Conte was born in San Francisco and grew up in Marin County, California.[17] He studied music and composition at Stanford University, graduating in 2006.[18] Conte and Nataly Dawn engaged in January 2016[19] and married in May 2016.[20]
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