Editing Ryder Carroll

{{Infobox person
| name = Ryder Carroll
| photo = 
| company = Bullet Journal
| location = Brooklyn, New York City, New York
| socialmedia = [https://twitter.com/rydercarroll Twitter - @rydercarroll]

[https://www.instagram.com/rydercarroll/ Instagram - rydercarroll]
| website = [http://www.rydercarroll.com Ryder Carroll personal site], [http://bulletjournal.com/ Bullet Journal]
}}

Ryder Carroll, born around 1981 <ref name="inc">deducted from [https://www.inc.com/anna-hensel/bullet-journal-creator-ryder-carroll-organization-tips.html Is This the Most Perfect Method for Staying Organized?], Inc.</ref>,  is the creator/inventor of the [[Bullet Journal]] (http://bulletjournal.com/) and, according to [http://www.rydercarroll.com/ rydercarroll.com], is a digital product designer.

==Personal Life and Work==
Ryder Carroll emigrated to the United States from Vienna, Austria in the late 1990s, to attend college. After college he worked as an app, game and website designer.<ref  name="cnbc2017">[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/02/how-the-creator-behind-the-viral-bullet-journal-turned-his-own-life-hack-into-a-full-time-business.html How the creator behind the viral bullet journal turned his own life hack into a full-time business], CNBC Make It, August 2017</ref> Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder at a young age, he started working on the Bullet Journal system in the 1990s<ref name="inc" /> and ended up creating a way of note taking that helped him focus on multiple things during a shorter period of time. <ref  name="refinery29">[http://www.refinery29.uk/bullet-journal-organiser Introducing The Bullet Journal – A Mindful Way To Organise Your Life], Refiner 29, October 2016</ref>

==Kickstarter==
In September 2014, he launched the [[Bullet Journal (Kickstarter Campaign)|Bullet Journal Kickstarter Campaign]] to centralize the bullet journal community through a new website. He reached his fundraising goal in eight hours and raised close to $80,000 by the end of his campaign.<ref name="cnbc2017" />

==Appearances on Stationery Podcasts==
Carroll has been a guest on two episodes of [[The Pen Addict (Podcast)]]: 
* In Fall 2013 Carroll joined [[Brad Dowdy]] and [[Myke Hurley]] to discuss the concept of bullet journaling, and where it came from, on [[The Pen Addict 70|episode 70]].
* He again joined the podcast a year later (on [[The Pen Addict 124|episode 124]]) to discuss bullet journaling as the global phenomenon, the recent Kickstarter campaign, and the upcoming plans for the company.

==Links==

* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA1COTTWn9yQLOt1J9oP_QQ Ryder Carroll's YouTube Channel]
* [http://bulletjournal.com/ Bullet Journal]

==References and Notes==

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