Pouria Assadipour is the Co-Founder and CTO of Beatdapp.
Beatdapp helps music labels and artists track their songs to collect royalties. Beatdapp is a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time. It reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure, expensive audit costs, and lawsuits for DSPs.

Takeaways

How Beatdapp determines if a listen is human.
Music industry breakdown.
Importance of streaming in the music business.
Breakdown revenue sources for streams and artists.
Importance of data and AI in the industry.
How to build a great engineering team.
How to find a technical co-founder.
How to hire early engineers for a startup.


Chapters
00:00 The Genesis Story of Beatdapp
04:10 The Problem of Fake Streams in the Music Industry
07:53 The Importance of Streams in the Music Business
10:42 Focus and Market Fit for Beatdapp
13:14 The Impact of Generative AI on the Music Industry
17:28 Challenges with Generative AI in Music Creation
22:20 Interfacing with Other Parts of the Business
24:03 Building a Strong Team Culture at Beatdapp
25:53 Qualities of a Great CTO
28:49 Geography and Talent Acquisition
30:51 Attracting Great Engineers to Startups
34:42 Finding and Convincing a Technical Co-founder
36:26 Current Reading and Excitement for the Future
38:48 Dealing with Hard Times as a Founder
39:38 Journey of an Entrepreneur

Keywords
fake streams, music industry, Beatdapp, revenue, CTO, engineering team, AI, data, streams importance, team culture, startups, entrepreneurship

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