Fascinating Founders

Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He is the cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World (Viking), and the creator of Bentoism. Yancey is a Distinguished Fellow at the Drucker Institute, and has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of Fortune’s “40 under 40,” and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People. He’s spoken at MIT, Stanford, the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, Web Summit, and at startups, nonprofits, companies, and schools around the world. Yancey co-founded the artist resource The Creative Independent and the record label eMusic Selects. Yancey began his career as a music critic in New York City and grew up on a farm in Clover Hollow, Virginia. He lives with his family in Vancouver, Canada.