What Yancey Strickler has said about Creator burnout

1 quote · 1 episode · Aug 14, 2026

Yancey Strickler, Co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, writer and musician, has been quoted on Creator burnout once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on August 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Strickler argued that creators burn out because they must act as artist, marketer, community manager, and order fulfiller while running small businesses around hobbies.

    “You're the artist. You're the marketer. You're the community manager. You're the order fulfiller. You're all of these things because we're ultimately running these small businesses around our hobbies”

    TED Radio Hour: The price of creativity (Aug 14, 2026) · Listen from 20:09

Episodes

  • The price of creativity

    TED Radio Hour · Aug 14, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi talks with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler about the history of creativity, the creator economy, and his proposed artist corporation (A Corp).

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