Yancey Strickler: Could this be our future?
Yancey is a writer and entrepreneur most well-known for being a co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter; the website that pioneered crowdsourcing and enabled tens of thousands of people to get funding for their ideas.
The co—matter podcast 031 | December 15, 2019
Listen to the co-matter podcast anywhere by subscribing to Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite podcasting app (search for "co-matter").
Now, Yancey wrote a book.
It’s called “This Could be Our Future” and is a manifesto for a more generous world. In it, Yancey argues that Western society has been driven primarily by maximizing self-interest and wealth. For too long, we’ve neglected other values in life; such as community, purpose, and sustainability.
Is there a way out? We sat down with Yancey in the Samsung NEXT Podcast Studio at Web Summit in Lisbon to find out. We talked about:
- What it was like leaving Kickstarter as a CEO after almost 10 years building the company.
- How Yancey explored what he wanted to do next and his vision behind writing a book
- The importance of values such as community, purpose and sustainability
- His proposal for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living
Follow Yancey at @ystrickler on Twitter. Buy his book “This Could be Our Future” at a book store you trust and want to support.
Check out bentoism.org to diver deeper into the philosophy of Bentoism.
024 Jennifer Brandel & Mara Zepeda: How Zebras Unite make startup culture more inclusive
Project type
008 Justin Gignac: Building the world’s most obsessively curated community of creatives
Project type
007 Annamaria Olsson: How Give Something Back to Berlin connects refugees and other migrants through knowledge sharing
Project type
hello@co-matter.com
Zossener Str. 41
10961 Berlin
Management Board: Severin Matusek
Court of Registration: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 195395 B
VAT ID: DE317741247
Last updated: May 14, 2024 ■ 17:35pm