Jack Conte
Background
Jack Conte was born in San Francisco, California, and studied music and composition at Stanford University. A brilliant musician, multi-instrumentalist, and video producer, Conte co-founded the viral indie-pop duo Pomplamoose in 2008 with Nataly Dawn, pioneering direct-to-fan YouTube music videos.
Role at Patreon, Inc.
Jack Conte is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Patreon, Inc. In May 2013, after spending $10,000 to produce a viral YouTube video with over 1 million views that paid him only $166 in ad revenue, Conte decided to change the economic destiny of artists forever. Alongside Stanford roommate Sam Yam, Conte founded Patreon to give creators predictable monthly income directly from their biggest fans. Under Conte's deeply passionate, visionary leadership, Patreon catalyzed the global 'Creator Economy' movement, scaling to a $4.0 billion valuation and distributing over $3.5 billion to more than 250,000 creators. Conte is universally revered as the defining champion and moral defender of modern internet creators. Conte's unyielding artistic passion, emotional vulnerability, and fierce moral advocacy made him the undisputed champion of the modern creative class. Speaking with raw authenticity about the financial terrors of being an artist, Conte built Patreon from a coffee-shop idea into a $4.0 billion global movement that has transferred over $3.5 billion directly to 250,000+ artists, forever liberating creators from the tyranny of social media advertising algorithms.