# @usatoday on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-06T16:31:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** USA TODAY (@USATODAY) — https://gondola.cc/USATODAY

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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

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