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REVOLUTIONIZING HOW CONTENT FINDS ITS THEME MUSIC

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Listen in from yourfavorite podcast spots or read the full transcript here.

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A Marketplace to find and

license the perfect song

 

Kirt Debique is the Co-Founder and CEO of SyncFloor, a company revolutionizing discovery and acquisition of music for productions of all types – from advertising to podcasting, filmmaking to fitness, TV to eSports.

Kirt is an entrepreneur and a renaissance man. A native of Trinidad, Kirt started college at sixteen. He passed on grad school at Stanford to work at Microsoft. His career there paralleled some of that company’s major milestones, But after a successful 20-year stint at the tech giant, Kirt decided to take his career in a different direction. He founded Brick Lane Records, an Indie music label. He started Brick Lane with a set of principles that made the artist the priority – a key opportunity he recognized hanging out in the local Seattle music scene. Oh, and by the way, Kirt is also an artist on his label.

Today Kirt leads his own tech startup, SyncFloor, which is an amazing fusion of his expertise: music and technology. Listen in to hear more about Kirt startup journey.

 

“If I’m going to go do something, I go super deep on it so that I have a lot of empathy for the people involved.”
~ Kirt Debique

In this episode Kirt and Dan discussed:

  • Growing up in Trinidad
  • Coming to the US to study computer science in college at 16
  • What gives him empathy for the indie music creator
  • His spin on creating a music label
  • How music fits in the creator economy
  • His approach to the chicken-and-egg of building a marketplace

 

Episode Shout Outs:

Kirby Winfield – Ascend VC
Brick Lane Records
Steven Wolfe Pereira

5-star reviewer: Jessica, sySTEMic flow

 

“I never told Stanford I wasn’t coming. So there’s somebody, waiting for their TA to show up still!”
~ Kirt Debique

MORE on KIRT AND SYNCFLOOR

KIRT:

linkedin.com/in/kirtdebique/
twitter.com/katewayo
twitter.com/BrickLaneRecs
instagram.com/katewayo/

 

SYNCFLOOR:

 

songsforpodcasters.com
syncfloor.com
linkedin.com/company/syncfloor/
twitter.com/SyncFloor
instagram.com/syncfloor/

 

“We’ll start an independent music label.”
~ Kirt Debique