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Yancey Strickler
Entrepreneur and author From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yancey Strickler (born November 4, 1978) is an American author, entrepreneur, and former music critic. He co-founded Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects.[1]
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Biography
Strickler was born in rural Virginia.[2] While attending Giles High School he became interested in journalism and earned an internship with The Roanoke Times New River Current.[3] He attended College of William & Mary where he majored in English and Literary and Cultural Studies.[4] After graduating from William and Mary, he moved to New York City where he worked as a music journalist for publications including Spin, The Village Voice, and the website eMusic.[5]
In 2009, he co-founded Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects.[6]
In 2019, he wrote This Could Be Our Future, a 2019 Penguin Random House book about building a society that looks beyond profit as its core organizing principle.[7] The book also describes a decision-making framework that Yancey invented called Bentoism.[2]
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