What Yancey Strickler has said about Record deals and music industry economics

2 quotes · 1 episode · Aug 14, 2026

Yancey Strickler, Co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, writer and musician, has been quoted on Record deals and music industry economics 2 times 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 labels and studios treat artists as service providers who create assets for larger entities to capitalize on.

    “artists are essentially service providers who create assets that these larger entities acquire and capitalize on”

    TED Radio Hour: The price of creativity (Aug 14, 2026) · Listen from 24:43

  • Strickler proposed that records made by A Corp bands would be joint ventures co-owned by the band and label.

    “I think their record would be like a joint venture co-owned by the band and the label at which they are both putting in some money or labor”

    TED Radio Hour: The price of creativity (Aug 14, 2026) · Listen from 27:00

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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