> During a break from the meetings, I ask her, "Would you have to give money back to your backers if you weren't able to deliver?"
She takes a deep breath and pauses before answering.
"Technically, from the Kickstarter perspective, I actually don't know the answer to that," she says. "But from a doing-the-right-thing perspective, we will treat our backers the best possible way."
Um, what? She doesn't know how the Kickstarter system would or could transfer money back to the funders? Or she doesn't know if there's "technically" an obligation to make a refund? The answer to the second question should have been well known to her and her lawyers. It's a little troubling that she can't give a straight answer so early in the infancy of a project that is ostensibly rooted in openness.
She takes a deep breath and pauses before answering.
"Technically, from the Kickstarter perspective, I actually don't know the answer to that," she says. "But from a doing-the-right-thing perspective, we will treat our backers the best possible way."
Um, what? She doesn't know how the Kickstarter system would or could transfer money back to the funders? Or she doesn't know if there's "technically" an obligation to make a refund? The answer to the second question should have been well known to her and her lawyers. It's a little troubling that she can't give a straight answer so early in the infancy of a project that is ostensibly rooted in openness.