Yancey Strickler

Co-founder of Kickstarter and creator of the “Bentoism” framework — a model of decision-making that expands the consideration of self-interest to include present and future community interests. Author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World (2019).

Strickler’s work on value systems beyond financial maximization is directly relevant to the Network Nations project. His experience building Kickstarter as a public benefit corporation, and his subsequent thinking on how communities make collective decisions, informs the discussion of what “makes” a nation — and what values, beyond economics, bind people together. His concept of Bentoism provides a vocabulary for the kind of multi-horizon, multi-stakeholder thinking that stake-based governance in Network Nations aspires to.

Appears in: Ep 5: What Makes a Nation?