I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

There is no simple answer to what I think.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.