Pouria Assadipour from Beatdapp

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