The music industry has evolved over the years as seen through various artists like Macklemore and Chance the Rapper. Macklemore's success in 2013 highlighted the changing landscape of the industry, with artists achieving success without major labels. Despite initial skepticism, the industry demonstrated the value of aspects like A&R and marketing, debunking the belief that they were merely burdens on the system.
Matthew Ball is the CEO of Epyllion, which makes angel investments, provides advisory services, and produces television, films, and video games.
He’s also a Venture Partner at Makers Fund, Senior Advisor to KKR, Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, and sits on the board of numerous start-ups.
Matthew is one of the sharpest and most original thinkers on the future of media and the Internet (i.e. The Metaverse). The fully revised and updated edition of his bestselling book "The Metaverse: Building the Spatial Internet" releases next week.
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Show Notes:
- Into The Metaverse
- AI and The Metaverse
- ‘AI Can Bend the Laws of Physics’
- Human Engineering and the Human Brain
- Screens and Education
- The Reflexivity of AI Doomerism
- The Salvation of the ‘TV Species’
- From Passive Media to Active Media
- ‘What’s An Appropriate Simulation?’
- ‘We Don’t Outlaw Fire, We Train Firemen’
- Applying the Precautionary Principle
- Media and the Metaverse: Three Stages of Competition
- The Enduring Value of Taste
- Hardware and AI: The Vergence-Accommodation Conflict
- The Emperor of the Metaverse
- MORE!
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