Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur who explores new creative forms. He's the Cofounder and Director of Metalabel, which is establishing new ways for creative people to create value together, cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, which pioneered crowdfunding and helped creators raise more than $8 billion for their projects, and cofounder of The Creative Independent, a resource of emotional and practical guidance for artists. He's the author of "This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World" (2019) and the essay "The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet" (2019), which became a book, "The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet" (2024), with a dozen other writers. His career began as a music critic writing for Pitchfork, Spin, and The Village Voice.