study at the University of Pennsylvania found that Kickstarter projects have created 8,800 new companies and nonprofits, and a remarkable 29,600 full-time jobs. The platform has generated more than $5.3 billion in direct economic impact for those creators and their communities. Perry thinks many more entrepreneurs can be moved to build camels, not unicorns: “Really it’s to allow the generation that’s coming up now, which I think has a lot of this inclination…to be able to know that there’s not just one way to do it.”
