Yancey Strickler

Some of them I knew.

Some of them I didn't.

And I reached out and I had just attached a Google Doc.

And I said, hey, I'm working on this thing.

It's not public.

But I wrote this while thinking of you.

And really curious to know what you think.

And all five people wrote back.

And all five had some reaction of like, wow, I've never thought of it this, I've never seen this meta, I've never seen this thing.

And that feedback sort of fed that this is real.

And that process led to the, ultimately to seeing

to building a tool for that sort of project to exist today, and then to imagine how those sorts of projects could legally become powerful, could become wealthy, could become bigger than how we think of an artist's role today.

But like, it really did begin with

uh, just trying to understand my own unhappiness with the situation that was to my liking.

I'd made the situation I wanted, but I did not enjoy it.

And trying to figure that out for myself has just led to, well, you know, uh, in my, in the talk I gave, I talk about how I'm starting Kickstarter.

There had been a wall and we built a door.

And that had been in the talk for a while.

And about a month ago, I was reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is a book by Joseph Campbell.

And this is where the hero's journey idea comes from.