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In 2013, YouTube musician Jack Conte was looking for a solution to his problem:
millions of people loved his videos, but only hundreds of dollars were hitting
his bank account. This didn’t add up, so he drafted up an idea about a website
that would allow his fans to pay him directly for the value he was giving them.
He brought that doodle to his college roommate Sam Yam (now the co-founder of
Patreon) who turned that chicken scratch into a fully functioning service in
just six weeks. Fast forward eight years, and Patreon is the solution to this
same problem for over 250,000 creators supported by more than 8 million patrons,
and creators have earned over $3.5 billion.
