# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/perry-chen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:25:07.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/perry-chen"
name: "Perry Chen"
slug: "perry-chen"
description: "Perry Chen is an American entrepreneur best known for being the creator and principal founder of Kickstarter, the online crowdfunding platform for creative projects. He came up with the idea for Kickstarter in 2001 and launched it in 2009 along with co-founders Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler."
tagline: "American Internet entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Perry_Chen_of_Kickstarter_at_NXNEi_(4708963039)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.52
  momentum:             1.401869158878505
  historical:           4.821672
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/perrychen"
    handle:    "perrychen"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86"
    title: "بيري تشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%86"
    title: "بيرى تشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Chen"
    title: "Perry Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Chen"
    title: "Perry Chen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E4%BD%A9%E9%87%8C"
    title: "陈佩里"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14920616"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump