Perry Chen
is the co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter, an innovative online community site which allows people to offer goods and services in return for funding for a particular project. Prior to Kickstarter, Perry worked as a day-trader, an audio engineer and a pre-school teacher. He also co-founded the Southfirst art gallery in Brooklyn, New York.
How exactly do you plan to change the world?
With Kickstarter… Kickstarter allows people to fund creative projects directly from the public.
What comes next? The Bloomberg Businessweek Innovation and Design blog chronicles new tools for creativity and collaboration, innovation case studies in both the corporate and social sectors, and the new ideas that have the power to change the way things have always been done.