The creative crowdfunding giant, #Kickstarter, tripped up before Everette Taylor, then 33, was named its CEO in 2022. Revenue dropped by 20%, and Taylor was hired as chief executive that September, according to a recent New York Times piece. In the years since, Taylor, now 37, has been the subject of other shimmery features in Entrepreneur, Esquire, Forbes magazines – and now a profile in USA TODAY about his climb as a young, Black CEO. Kickstarter launched in 2009 with mid-2010s fanfare before falling on hard times. But in the last four years, the company experienced a corporate revival with Taylor at the helm. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Nathanial Gray, USA TODAY