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Charles Adler
Kickstarter, Lost Arts

After decades supporting undiscovered artists and musicians through side projects – Charles, along with co-founders Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler, launched Kickstarter in April 2009. Within less than a decade Kickstarter has raised over $2B for more than 100,000 projects across the global. Kickstarter is the global platform for our times most creative individuals and teams. His next endeavor, Lost Arts, aims to continue his drive to support creatives and their explorations.

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My first interaction design job, a project manager would write all the specs, and I’d just go build the wireframe. It’s not that way anymore. People are looking to designers to really be leaders.

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