In 2009 this duo unveiled a website that lets ordinary people provide support—often just $5 or $10 at a time—for creative projects by artists, musicians, and filmmakers. Crowd funding has since transformed areas such as game design and hardware development as well. So far Kickstarter members have contributed nearly $1 billion to 55,000 projects, helping to launch the Pebble smartwatch, the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset, playgrounds, orbiting satellites, and 20 movies that were screened at 2014's Sundance festival.
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