Kat Young
I'm a founder and technologist who makes startups work: product, revenue, operations, and everything in between. I've built across music, art, and the wider internet economy.
Right now I lead Drips, building funding infrastructure for open-source software development, and I'm president of our org Public Goods Association, where we design new and novel ways to support OSS.
Before this I led product at Zora, where creators earned more than a million dollars, and at Gitcoin. Earlier: music ventures at BCG Digital Ventures, music software at Ableton, music monetization at SoundCloud. I've taught funding mechanisms at NYU Berlin, mentored founders at Gaza Sky Geeks, and spoken at Funding the Commons, ETHBerlin, Art Basel, and Amsterdam Dance Event.
I make things on the side. Marginalia, a private outfit diary for developing your own sense of style. closecontact.club, a privacy-first check-in app that ran across a dozen venues during the pandemic. Ethevacuations was an initiative to raise money for Gaza. An early side project, Salt + Sass, was an event series and podcast for women in music technology.