Lost Arts was established to explore “the enablement of creators to engage with one another online and offline in service of aiding their ability to bring projects to market”, while Source ID was an independent design and technology studio based in New York and San Francisco. That resonated deeply with us and the world that we were arguably trying to fight against was a world that dismissed those ideas.”Īlthough Kickstarter features as the headline on his CV, Adler is hardly a one-hit wonder, having also founded several other organisations in which the common factors have been creativity and innovation. “We were three people, surrounded by technologists and artists who couldn’t get a leg up.
That, he says, is “pretty rad, and frankly, humbling”, especially given the landscape Kickstarter was created in. It’s become the largest platform for creative projects globally.” “By now you’ve likely participated in a Kickstarter campaign as a backer and maybe even launched your own. Kickstarter has “brought art to the desert and launched a satellite”, while creating more than 300,000 jobs and distributing in excess of $4.5bn in funds to creators across every continent.
In 2009 he launched Kickstarter with Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler, since when the ‘public benefit company’ has helped to become the catalyst for Academy Award-winning films and National Design Award-winning products.
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“You look at this stuff, and you might give it gentrified labels such as ‘street art’, but the real question is what’s going on here?” It’s this type of approach that has led him to react against the technology entrepreneur stereotype of “a rich dude with a Tesla”, preferring to be “a designer and technologist tinkering with code directed toward accelerating the creative work of others”. He’s always been fascinated by ‘nerdy little fringe sub-cultures’: skateboarding, punk rock, graffiti art. Still in his 40s, Adler is something of a cultural rebel. The rules were always meant to be broken. It’s a story about empowerment and community. I believe that today innovators and creatives are more and more empowered by the tools we have in our pockets, our hands and our laptops. The reason I’m excited about this moment in the future is that we are building into this moment. “I make no apology for being an optimist,” he says. Yet, while measures to contain Covid-19 have reframed the world as we know it, Adler’s stance on what he calls the “fuzzy future” of innovation and entrepreneurship seems, even in the face of the commercial uncertainty we face today, to be just as relevant. The conference is at Music City Center, taken over for the week by, according to the event’s promoters, “a vibrant community of designers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders powering an Industry Renaissance that’s changing the way we think, work and live”.ĭespite being just a few months ago, 3D Experience World 2020 now seems to belong to a prelapsarian utopia in which intercontinental business travel, face-to-face meetings and shaking hands with colleagues were taken for granted. He’s giving his keynote address at this year’s 3D Experience World conference in the pleasantly old-time honky-tonk town of Nashville, Tennessee, where Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline are always on a jukebox somewhere and every other shop sells cowboy boots. This is the word of the man who kickstarted Kickstarter, the man whose next project is so ambitious and so veiled in secrecy that its success seems to be inevitable. You might not know what every word of his hyper-trendy ‘Wired-speak’ idiolect actually means, but you are left in absolutely no doubt that it’s important. One thing is certain, and that is you walk away from a Charles Adler presentation ‘on message’. He switches between evangelising directly to the audience and talking to himself, locked in a bubble of self-belief that is frightening in its intensity. Using the whole stage, he prowls in front of a backdrop of revolving slogan projections reminding the audience that “rules are meant to be broken” and innovation “comes from the fringe”. He’s clad in the American tech guru’s uniform of boom mic and skinny black jeans.
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Watching Charles Adler present to a hall full of devotees is a bit like experiencing a mash-up of an Apple press conference and a U2 concert.
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