Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation

Hey everyone, it's Guy here. Welcome to a very special edition of How I Built This. So You might have heard that back in May we held our first ever live virtual How I Built the Summit. Most of the time we do it in person, but for obvious reasons we had to go virtual this year, but Still, more than 3,000 people from around the world attended. And this summer we're releasing some of our conversations from the summit here on the podcast.

Today we've got one of those conversations. It was a panel discussion on innovation with three incredible founders, all of whom have been on how I built this in the past. So you're gonna hear from Pyle Kadakia of ClassPass. Tristan Walker of Walker and Company, and Perry Chen of Kickstarter. We started off by talking about how each of them came to their ideas. And before Perry Chan launched Kickstarter, he actually had no intention of starting a business. I wasn't coming from entrepreneurship and I wasn't working.

In business and all I was DJing and working on electronic music and you know I had this idea. And it wasn't in my field, it's just an idea, and so you assume You know, there's probably something wrong here and it's the kind of problem that comes up a lot, like funding. So every project I'd have, I'd be like, Where could I get money for this? So every time it would come up, it would be like, Well, why doesn't this thing exist? Yeah. And I'm usually

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