Everette Taylor

Everette Taylor is CEO of Kickstarter, the world’s premiere crowdfunding platform. Everette is a creative entrepreneur who is passionate about art, supporting creatives and entrepreneurs, and helping people bring their dreams to reality.

Before joining Kickstarter, Everette served as the CMO of Artsy, the largest online marketplace for fine art. During his time at Artsy, he was named by Forbes as one of the World's Most Influential CMOs due to the business seeing all-time record revenue growth during his tenure.

As a marketing executive, he led both on-demand rental car company Skurt as their CMO and software company Qualaroo to successful acquisitions. He also led growth and co-founded GrowthHackers.com which became the largest community for growth marketers. He also helped e-commerce company Sticker Mule see its largest growth as a company as their youngest CMO ever and oversaw growth strategy of new social products for Microsoft China.

As an entrepreneur, Everette started his first company at the age of 19 called EZ Events which was successfully acquired in 2011. He then went on to establish ET Enterprises in 2013, a diverse portfolio of companies that includes PopSocial, MilliSense, ArtX and more. As CEO of PopSocial, he was recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018 for his innovation in the social media marketing space.

In 2019, Everette received an honorary doctorate degree from Shaw University upon recognition of his “meritorious contributions to human society and welfare for humanity”.