Kickstarter CEO: We Will Never Sell

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Kickstarter won?t be raising funds from Google or Microsoft anytime soon.

In an interview with Yahoo Tech?s David Pogue at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, Kickstarter cofounder and CEO Yancey Strickler pledged that he would never sell his popular crowdfunding site.

"From a business perspective, we decided from the very beginning that we would never IPO and we would never sell to a bigger company," Strickler explained.

As a business, Kickstarter has been profitable since 2010. And despite recent huge paydays for founders of popular startups like Instagram, Nest and WhatsApp, Strickler is apparently intent on remaining independent.

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[123456789A]

What if Google started a Kickstarter for Kickstarter to sell out to Google?

[primexx]

well KS was already competing against existing platforms when they started and still managed to come out on top, I doubt they're really worried about Google.

[HoochieMamma]

What if Google started a Kickstarter for Kickstarter to sell out to Google?

 

Kickception?

[Raa]

They will sell. Everyone has a price.

[wrack]

^ times infinity.

 

Kickstarter CEO: We Will Never Sell > Transalation : We will sell if the price is right (i.e. ridiculous).

[casper2]

 

[Argi]

Everyone will sell for the right price.

[Anibal P]

Didn't the CEO of Whatsapp say the same thing a week or so before selling out to Facebook?

 

We should have an announcement as to who is buying them soon it seems