In July, the web designer put himself at the mercy of the world.
For more generous donations, he'll let you come hang out in his Columbus, Ohio, kitchen while he makes the potato salad ($10), write you a potato salad haiku ($20), or send you a potato salad-themed hat ($25).īrown is raising money so fast, he's having a hard time keeping up with making new stretch goals for his backers. Zack Danger Brown launched his own Kickstarter campaign to buy him the ingredients for a potato salad. Zack Brown, 31, drew thousands to Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday for an event that started as a bit of fun but became PotatoStock 2014.
For $3, Brown will ship "a bite" of potato salad. He's already promised his backers four kinds of potato salad so far, including one vegan option.įor a modest $1, backers will get a "thank you" posted on Brown's website, a picture of Brown making the potato salad (seriously), and Brown will say the backer's name out loud while making the potato salad. Back in July, Zack Brown asked Kickstarter for 10 to make potato salad (" I don't know what kind yet" ) He ended up with 55,000, and his modest project sparked a debate between. Thirty days later, the campaign was funded at 55,492. Zack Brown's Kickstarter project for Potato Salad. But it wasn't individual donors backing out en masse from the controversial fundraiser Kickstarter says they cancelled three large donations that couldn't be verified. Louis-Jean Teitelbaum, a 32-year-old living in Paris who was one of the first people to pledge money to the potato salad, said he appreciated Browns tone of 'overwhelming gratitude,' which he said people use too often on the Internet in an 'inauthentic' way. The potato project dropped from 70,000 to 44,000. A screenshot from the potato salad Kickstarter page. The project, which started on July 3, doesn't end until August. Zack 'Danger' Brown ran a Kickstarter campaign to raise 10 so he could make potato salad. The Potato Salad Kickstarter Lost Almost 30,000 In Donations Overnight. With over 1,000 enthusiastic backers, Brown, a web developer, has already raised over 2,000 times his original goal of $10. The Tax Foundation figured that on the original 70,000 total, Brown would owe. I haven't decided what kind yet," says Zack Danger Brown on the Kickstarter page for his crowdsourced potato salad project. He eventually had pledges which surpassed 70,000 though, as of this writing, it's down to 46,705. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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