This week, we're wrapping up 2025 with three rapid-fire interviews from last month's conference. First, Rachel Francine of SingFit pioneers music as medicine in senior living communities. Next, Matt Sherman from Str3amcore Labs explains how blockchain manages music catalogs, building on his family's century-long music legacy. Finally, John Gearty from PulseJet reveals immersive VR experiences, including a Björk album where you walk inside the music. Three innovations showing

This week, we’re kicking off 2026 with our opening keynote from last year’s Music Tectonics conference: “Optimization is Not Enough: Are You Ready for Streaming’s Reckoning?" In this keynote, Tatiana Cirisano from MIDiA Research joins Dmitri to ask a provocative question: Is the music industry so focused on optimizing streaming revenue that it’s missing what comes next? Tatiana argues that

Music tech founders Stanley Vergilis (Tone3000), Mauhan Zonoozy (The Vinyl Bar in Shibuya), and Jessica Powell (AudioShake) join Conor Healy from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund to discuss building defensible companies. Learn about creating moats through marketplaces, data, and partnerships; fundraising strategies from angels to VCs; founder-market fit; and common startup mistakes. Packed with tactical insights on product-market fit, pitching investors, and scaling music tech st

Music tech founders Stanley Vergilis (Tone3000), Mauhan Zonoozy (The Vinyl Bar in Shibuya), and Jessica Powell (AudioShake) join Conor Healy from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund to discuss building defensible companies. Learn about creating moats through marketplaces, data, and partnerships; fundraising strategies from angels to VCs; founder-market fit; and common startup mistakes. Packed with tactical insights on product-market fit, pitching investors, and scaling music tech st

Music tech founders Stanley Vergilis (Tone3000), Mauhan Zonoozy (The Vinyl Bar in Shibuya), and Jessica Powell (AudioShake) join Conor Healy from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund to discuss building defensible companies. Learn about creating moats through marketplaces, data, and partnerships; fundraising strategies from angels to VCs; founder-market fit; and common startup mistakes. Packed with tactical insights on product-market fit, pitching investors, and scaling music tech st

This week on Music Tectonics, we're continuing our Conference Conversations series from the Music Tectonics Conference. Today, we're featuring Ethan Millman from the Hollywood Reporter. Ethan breaks down one of the biggest music industry trends: the blurring lines between music distribution and record labels. We explore how label services are evolving why distribution deals have become the hottest topic in music business and what artists need to know when choosing between dis

Music Tectonics kicks off a series from the recent conference with Andrew Kahn and Conor Healy from Yamaha Music Innovation Fund. They discuss how Yamaha invests in music tech startups, what they seek in founders, and why solving real creator problems matters more than chasing AI hype. Topics include expanding beyond traditional musicians, what makes startups fundable, streaming infrastructure opportunities, building creator revenue streams, and insights from startup speed da

Fresh off Music Tectonics Conference in Santa Monica, we're sharing a keynote from our pre-conference event: Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research presents "Crossroads: Streaming's Time to Choose." Mark examines critical pressures facing streaming—from AI-generated content flooding platforms to Gen Z's slower adoption rates—and why the industry must shift from optimization to revolution. Includes Q&A from our community

This week, we're exploring the future of direct-to-fan commerce with Joshua Stone, the CEO and Co-Founder of Stuff.io and book.io. Josh has some serious backing, including names like Mark Cuban, Snoop Dogg, and Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum just to name a few, and has been working on building Web3 infrastructure that lets artists sell media directly to fans that fans can own and not just rent. We talk about why streaming doesn't pay most artists, how direct-to

This week, we're exploring the future of direct-to-fan commerce with Joshua Stone, the CEO and Co-Founder of Stuff.io and book.io. Josh has some serious backing, including names like Mark Cuban, Snoop Dogg, and Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Ethereum just to name a few, and has been working on building Web3 infrastructure that lets artists sell media directly to fans that fans can own and not just rent. We talk about why streaming doesn't pay most artists, how direct-to

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