Quotes from Jack Conte

Art is the meaning of my life.

Building habits is important. One of mine is a weird, small thing, but it's very helpful: I stop eating just before I'm full. I feel so much better throughout the course of the day if I don't pack myself. It's a good way to get more energy.

Everybody wants to be able to enjoy beautiful things.

The philosophy behind Patreon is that all the great art we have known has been made because of patronage.

The interesting thing about membership is that it's, by its nature, a very emotional transaction. It's a tie to an artist. It feels like voting with your dollars: I'm voting with my spending, voting for the creator.

When I read articles or interviews about building culture, the suggestions are often obscure or hard to replicate.

Patreon is here to give control back to artists so it doesn't need to be a hard conversation when a kid tells their parents they want to be a musician or a photographer or a comedian. It should be the same as wanting to be a doctor or a lawyer.

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

I couldn't possibly be any more open or public about my role as CEO at Patreon.

I'm half of the band Pomplamoose and cofounder & CEO at Patreon.

I love the idea of creators owning their audience data instead of platforms.

Having the opportunity to play music as a career is a dream come true.

When I created my Patreon page, I knew the fans of my music would support me. I've met them on tour and I've seen their comments on Twitter and Facebook. I'm out there making relationships, so I should benefit the most, right?

Ultimately, our competitive advantage is that we're the most creator-first company on the planet.

The reality is Patreon needs to build new businesses and new services and new revenue lines in order to build a sustainable business.

I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings.

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage. It was a person who made great stuff. And then an institution, a religious institution, a government, a wealthy individual, would pay that person to go make more of that.

There are literally tens of thousands of people who create regular content on the web and have millions of followers.

Patreon is a website that helps artists make money. It's crowdfunding on an ongoing basis for a creator.

I wanted a button on my personal website, on jackconte.com, that said please give me money whenever I make a video if you want to help me keep making videos. Seconds after I thought of that, I thought: 'Well, gee, that's something a lot of my friends would like, too.'

There's a difference between what people will consume and what they will pay for.

I love well-produced stuff. The craft and the art of production is something I really, really love.

I fail most of the time. As a creator, and as CEO of Patreon, things can't go well all of the time.