#46 Deadmau5 Has A New Secret Weapon: His Manager Dean Wilson Tells You All

Dean Wilson, CEO and Founder of SEVEN20, wants to change the culture and business of the music industry with NFTs and blockchain technology. First on the chopping block is outdated music management. Dean and his partner deadmau5 want to put artists at the forefront of partnership-driven models. Musicians first. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Disruptors And Curious Minds 0:57 Human Traffic 1:39 Our Sponsor Wripple 2:41 Dean Wilson 4:25 The UK Music Scene 6:25 The End Of Vinyl 7:38 Finding Calvin Harris 8:42 Breaking America 11:58 Deadmau5 & Networks 15:02 The Deadmau5 app 17:09 The Discord Killer 20:45 Only Fans + Discord = AMP-D 26:19 What Do Super Fans Want? 30:06 The Folly Of Stream Rates 33:22 Metamask & Web3 Buzzwords 36:35 Motion Capture / Game Engines 42.05 It's Not Scary 45:08 Artist As Platform ====================

QUOTES FROM THE SHOW “I started selling vinyl out the back of a van in East London. I worked out of a place called The Truman Brewery on Brick Lane.” “We had a huge 3-week number one with a track which we wrote with Daniel Beddingfield - Gotta Get Through This.” “What do I do post vinyl?” “One day Mark Gillespie who was the talent Booker at God's Kitchen in Birmingham - one of the big super clubs in the UK - rings me and says “Oh I found this kid on MySpace called Adam Wiles. His name's Calvin Harris.”” “That was the start of the explosion of the first company 360. We had deadmau5, Chris Lake, Nero, Feed Me, Calvin Haris, and at some point the Swedish House Mafia. We had a pretty big chunk of the top 20 electronic DJs in the world.” “We decided we needed to find a US partner. That became Jay Brown and JayZ at Roc Nation and in the next two-three year ride was a spectacular ride to the Moon with breaking Calvin and the Rihanna record and boom! Calvin was a worldwide Superstar.” “I'm a big picture guy I look at try to look at everything realistically from the top down and then see what the opportunities are and what do we need to do.” “What excites me is the underlying technology and computing power and the speed of the internet that will allow us to do “fill in gap.”” “Discord has shown us a vision of the future where we can connect with our fans in real time without a pay wall.” “What we've been trying to build is a version of Only Fans meets Discord. It’s called AMP-D.” “In music, the 1% of the 1% are richer than they've ever been.” “The Super Fan wants everything. They want to be the first to know, the first to engage, the first to buy. They want to feel like a community, like family.” “People forget that fan clubs are not a new thing.” “Stop using the buzzwords. Use words that people use every day and see what happens.” “I'm excited about the fundamental layer of the technology and what we can vertically build up from there.” “We’ll keep chipping away for change in the right way. For transparency and real time accounting so it can help people run their business in their lives better and get paid better.” “Forward facing it's got to be, “Okay, this doesn't look scary. I don't have to write my seed phrase down and put it in a shoebox under the bed or bury it somewhere and all of this crazy stuff that you have to do.” ⛓️ 🔗 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 Dean Wilson🔗 ⛓️ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean720wilson/ Seven20 - https://seven20.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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