The rise of spotify and other streaming services drastically changed the economics of musicians putting their work online. Instead of 99 cents per song in the itune store Musicians were making pennies per play Combine that with thin ad revenues on youtube and other platforms and drove musicians at all levels to reassess the economics of their business They hadn't done anything wrong, but their circumstances had completely changed Remember what might be right one minute can be wrong the next When that happens the only really wrong thing to do is nothing Jack and Natalie decided to pause the pomple moose channel I started working on this solo record Natalie signed a solo deal with Warner and went out on a world tour by herself And I
Building a business means making mistakes. Lots of them. But how you’re wrong isn’t always obvious. Jack Conte has learned this lesson as a working musician — and while scaling Patreon into a company worth $4b. In Part One of a two-part series, you’ll hear how Jack wrote his own Wrongness Playbook, as he learned to answer questions like: If something isn’t working, is it time to trust your instincts? Or is there critical feedback you’ve been ignoring?
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