Risk-taking & reinvention
summary
Three founders explain concrete moves and surprises: Shazam grows for 18 years into an Apple acquisition pending EU approval, built a working music‑ID from what experts called an impossible signal‑processing problem; one founder spends eight NFL seasons then funds an early‑stage firm with personal capital, cold‑emails mentors and shifts into crypto and blockchain; another walks away from big agency fees, refuses lucrative ad contracts, spends three years proving productized storytelling works and wins client adoption.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:19Rosemary Ryan
- 4:43Transition out of Traditional Advertising
- 6:30What Has Been the Biggest Learning for You in Scaling and Helping Scale of Shazam
- 17:48Listen to Your Heart
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