Kickstarter har ansat en rapporter til at undersøge et projekt der kollapsede efter at have indsamlet USD 3,4 millioner

Kickstarter har for første gang nogensinde, ansat en rapporter der skal undersøge hvordan det engelske firma Torquing Group bag Zano drone projektet der indsamlede USD 3,4 millioner, fejlede på under 1 år.

Kampagnen sluttede i januar i år, og havde på lige under 2 måneder indsamlet USD 3,4 millioner fra over 12.000 mennesker.

I november i år smed Torquing Group så håndklædet i ringen, hvor medstifter og CEO Ivan Reedman efterfølgende forlod Torquing Group.

Rapporteren er den britiske journalist Mark Harris, der bor i Seattle og er hyret af Kickstarter selv. Han udtaler:

The company wants to help the backers of this failed project get the information they are entitled to under their agreement with the project creator. They would like to uncover the story of Zano, from its inception to the present, and decided that the best way to do that was to hire a journalist. The primary audience for the story is the 12,000+ backers of the project, although I will also make the story publicly available once I’ve completed it, most likely in the middle of January.

Kickstarter has asked me to lay out the progress of the project, from start to finish; to discover what happened to the over £2m in funds pledged; and to answer the questions of whether Zano’s creators could have done anything differently, or made mistakes that future Kickstarter projects might avoid.

Billede: José A. Warletta, freeimages.com

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