"I was generating something like five times more revenue. Oh my God," he says. "Now, now everybody's on silent." He adds that the lyrics side has 70% of its traffic from outside his company and only 30% from within it. The ringtone business is in decline because people are no longer willing to pay for a song they can't use as their own personal ringtone.
Val Katayev is a tech and finance entrepreneur. In his high school yearbook, he decided he wanted to make $1,000,000 by the age of 30. He hit it by 19. In this interview, we spoke about some of his businesses, crypto, the looming recession, the power of a personal brand, and much more.