Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

What are Awesome People Ventures Founding Partner Julia Lipton's thoughts on the creator economy?

25 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief interview excerpt, the host asks Julia Lipton, founding partner at Awesome People Ventures, about her perspective on the creator and ownership economies and how they enable more flexible, flow‑state lifestyles. Lipton reflects that her own thesis emerged from her experience as a Twitter creator, which eventually led her to launch a fund focused on supporting creators. She expresses enthusiasm and gratitude for the journey, while the host offers supportive encouragement.

I would love to hear your thoughts on kind of like the creator economy or the ownership economy and how it enables people to live more flexible lifestyles and like be more in flow. Because that's been a major thesis of mine since like me being a creator on Twitter led to me doing the fund. I was like, yeah.
Yeah, which is awesome. Like, go you.
I feel like, yeah, it's, it's been a fun ride. I definitely feel super lucky to be on it.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think you're a perfect example of like what can happen with the creator economy. I think there's like so many— I've been diving in with some of my portfolio founders in this space. There are so many different ways to look at the creator economy and also how you define it, right? Like, do you put the freelancer, solopreneur in that bucket, or do you just put traditional creators in that bucket? And then do you just put the people who are making money? Because the reality is like most people don't make money.