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Patreon is a crowdfunding platform popular with YouTube content creators, musicians, and webcomic artists. It allows artists to obtain funding from their fans or patrons, on a recurring basis, or per artwork.〔(The California Report.org: "Creating Patrons of the Arts Through Crowdfunding" ) July 11–13, 2014.〕 This San Francisco based company was started by musician Jack Conte and developer Sam Yam in 2013.〔(Patreon.org: Intro ) Accessed 14.7.1014〕 Patreon has been featured in ''Forbes'', ''Billboard'', and ''Time magazine''. ==History== Patreon was founded in May 2013 by artist Jack Conte, who was looking for a way to make a living from his popular YouTube videos. Together with Sam Yam he developed a platform that allows patrons to donate a set amount of money every time an artist creates a work of art. The company raised $2.1 million in August 2013 from a group of venture capitalists and angel investors. In June 2014 the company raised a further $15 million in a series A round led by Danny Rimer of Index Ventures. The company has signed up more than 125,000 "patrons" in its first 18 months. In late 2014, the website announced that patrons were sending over $1 million per month to the site's content creators. In March 2015, Patreon acquired Subbable, a similar voluntary subscription service co-created by John and Hank Green, and brings over Subbable creators and contents including C.G.P. Grey, Destin Sandlin's ''Smarter Every Day'' and the Green brothers' own ''CrashCourse'' and ''SciShow'' channels.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexpham/2015/03/16/patreon-acquires-subbable-aligning-youtube-stars/ )〕 The merger was consequent of an expected migration of payment systems with Amazon Payments that Subbable used. In October 2015, the site was the target of a massive hacking attack with almost 15 gigabytes' worth of password data, donation records, and source code taken and published. The breach exposed more than 2.3M unique e-mail addresses and millions of private messages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patreon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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