article_snippet: Here have both been funded on the site previously, as has a music player by Neil Young.
article_snippet: I'm not saying that successful people can't use Kickstarter but, to me, successful people cap-in-hand use of the platform has always felt fraudulent,’ said Daniel Cooper for Engadget.
article_snippet: It'd be like watching Bill Gates, Mark Cuban and Warren Buffett panhandling on the streets of Seattle.
article_snippet: Warren Buffett added: ‘It's a romantic notion, but I always saw Kickstarter as a way to empower inventors (and creatives) who couldn't get backing any other way.
highlights_snippet: 'I always saw Kickstarter as a way to empower inventors  who couldn't get backing any other way,' said Engadget's Daniel Cooper .