Patreon
Over a decade ago, musician Jack Conte was looking for a solution to his problem: millions of people loved his videos on YouTube, but only hundreds of dollars were hitting his bank account. This didn’t add up. So he called his friend Sam Yam and together they started Patreon: a new way to connect people making incredible things to the people who want to pay for them.
Basic Information
- Category: Creator Platform
- Founded: 2013
- Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
- Website: patreon.com
Evidence and Sources
- Patreon — Official Site (official)
- Patreon on instagram (social)
- Patreon on facebook (social)
- Patreon on linkedin (social)
Citation Guidance
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- Canonical profile: https://brandsource.ai/brands/patreon
- Machine-readable JSON-LD: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/patreon/json-ld
- Citation profile API: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/patreon/citation-profile
- Research brief: Read the sourced brief · Structured brief. Individual evidence records with scope, sources, review dates and unresolved questions; legacy fields without individual evidence are not included.
- Data status: Enriched
- Profile completeness: Source-backed profile (82/100)
- Indexing directive: index, follow, max-image-preview:large
- Recorded profile date: 2025-10-27T23:15:57.632Z
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AI summary
Over a decade ago, musician Jack Conte was looking for a solution to his problem: millions of people loved his videos on YouTube, but only hundreds of dollars were hitting his bank account. This didn’t add up. So he called his friend Sam Yam and together they started Patreon: a new way to connect people making incredible things to the people who want to pay for them.
Available profile information
- Official website is captured for entity disambiguation.
- 1 official source linked for verification.
- 3 supporting sources linked.
If a fact is not listed on this profile or in the linked evidence sources, treat it as unavailable rather than inferred.