Yancey Strickler

Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the cofounder of Metalabel, cofounder of Kickstarter, and cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. He’s the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World, the philosophy of Bentoism, and he created the record label eMusic Selects. Yancey began his career as a music critic writing for Pitchfork, Spin, and The Village Voice. He grew up on a farm in Clover Hollow, Virginia, and lives in New York City.

Projects

Metalabel

Cozy Cozy

The Bento Society

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

Bentoism

The Ideaspace

Micd

The Creative Independent

Kickstarter

eMusic Selects

Writing

Worldbuilding is creative resilience (2023)

The internet feels small here (2023)

What’s after the creator economy?