Julian Gutman, Instagram Product Chief, to Be a part of Patreon as CPO

We’re excited to announce that Julian Gutman will probably be becoming a member of Patreon in Q1 as Chief Product Officer the place he’ll be main our Product and Engineering organizations. Julian is at present Head of Product for the House expertise of Instagram, the place he’s answerable for the Instagram Feed, Tales, Rating, Video, Profile and Interactions. As we embark on the following chapter of serving to Creators ship distinctive content material and reference to their fan communities, we’re excited for Julian to affix the management group and assist outline this product transformation.

A local New Yorker and NYU Stern alum, Julian additionally brings his expertise main groups and organizations at Fb, Ticketmaster, and Google together with a cellular growth studio, which he co-founded in 2011. For over 10 years, Julian has been serving to to attach billions of individuals on-line in methods by no means imagined, reworking relationships across the globe. By this work, extra individuals than ever earlier than have been in a position to creatively categorical themselves, join with their viewers, and interact with their communities.

In Julian’s phrases, “We’re within the very early days of a cultural transformation pushed by particular person creators. There’s a reimagining of how creators will probably be compensated for his or her craft, how they’ll have interaction with their followers every day, and the way this group of passionate followers will join with one another. Patreon was forward of the curve on this transformation and is the chief on this quickly rising house and I can’t wait to start out constructing with the group.”

We are able to’t look forward to Julian to get began! Within the interim, we had the chance to study a bit extra about him…

Inform us about your self together with a few of your earlier achievements.

I’ve been in love with computer systems and know-how since I obtained my first pc once I was 8, however rising up in New York I used to be equally involved in enterprise and tradition. I’ve been very lucky to be a part of organizations which have lived on the intersection of all three all through my profession, from serving to construct merchandise and organizations at Fb and Instagram throughout their hyper development phases, beginning a cellular growth studio because the App Retailer was taking off, and serving to Google develop within the early days via strategic partnerships.

As a seasoned govt working within the product area with world manufacturers like Instagram, Fb, Google and Ticketmaster, what drew you to Patreon?

There’s a constant set of traits that draw me to new alternatives: mission-driven corporations that align with my passions, a management group that’s each mission-obsessed and dedicated to delivering excellence to our clients, and an organization tradition that goals to be particular. As I frolicked with the Patreon group, all three had been leaping off the web page.

I’ve all the time been extraordinarily captivated with tradition and the those that create it, which is what drew me to organizations like Instagram, Fb, and Ticketmaster. I’ve by no means met an organization extra obsessive about this mission than Patreon, which isn’t stunning contemplating that Jack Conte himself is a creator.

As I met extra of the management group, it grew to become clear how dedicated all of them had been to the mission and to constructing an unimaginable product and sturdy firm for creators and their followers. And all of us shared a need to construct an organization with a really sturdy tradition that displays the creativity and excellence of the creators we serve. It’s a uncommon factor to see so a lot of these components align.

What excites you about working at Patreon?

Broadly, I imagine we’re at first of one of many best durations of cultural flourishing in historical past, pushed by particular person creators.

We’re within the very early days of how that is going to manifest. How creators will probably be compensated for his or her craft, how they’ll have interaction with their followers every day, and the way this group of passionate followers will join with one another.

Patreon is fascinating as a result of it’s so multidimensional. It’s about serving to creators ship distinctive content material, have interaction with followers, construct group, promote merchandise, and a lot extra.

I’m excited in regards to the merchandise we’re going to construct to energy this cultural transformation. To ship on this promise we’re going to should pioneer merchandise and know-how throughout a variety of areas together with video, audio, social, funds, and e-commerce. I’m additionally trying ahead to constructing out the group with the extent of expertise and tradition that’s going to be as much as this process and is as various, inventive, and wonderful because the creators and followers we serve.