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The 'AI in music' success story - with Hazel Savage, Syntho
Season 4 Episode 88
Join us as we dive into the fascinating journey of Hazel Savage, a trailblazer in AI and music tech. Discover her unique insights on entrepreneurship, and her experiences in building and selling a successful AI company. Hazel shares her candid thoughts on the challenges and triumphs of innovation, offering valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs.
If you're looking for a business and entrepreneurship podcast that will inspire, motivate and educate you, through the personal business journeys and entrepreneurial lessons learnt of Leeds business owners then this is the podcast for you
INTRODUCING HAZEL SAVAGE
With 18 years experience in the music industry, Hazel is a music-tech lifer, guitarist and currently the CEO at Syntho. Previously, in 2018 Hazel was the CEO and Co-Founder of Musiio, an AI startup which sold to SoundCloud in 2022. She started her music-tech journey as an early employee at Shazam and has also had the privilege and experience to work at Pandora Internet Radio, Universal Music, BandLab and HMV.
Hazel travels globally speaking at conferences and talking to catalogue owners about the value of artificial intelligence integration and digital transformation in the music industry. As a female founder in the heavily male-dominated industries of music and tech, Hazel seeks to offer insights with interesting and humorous anecdotes, as well as easy-to-follow explanations and use cases of artificial intelligence technology.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
[00:00:00] Introduction to Syntho and Hazel's journey
[00:02:30] Retirement and the call to action
[00:05:15] The Incubator experience, finding a co-founder
[00:10:34] From Idea to Execution; Starting Musio
[00:16:15] Navigating the Exit; selling Musio
[00:32:30] Back to the grind and embracing the hustle
[00:36:00] How to ideate for a start-up idea
[00:45:00] Building Leeds Angels
3 KEY TAKEAWAYS & BUSINESS LEARNINGS
- Have strong beliefs, but loosely held
- Get as many experts as possible to kick the tyres on your business idea
- If you don't have bad days, you can't have good days
3 MOMENTS TO LOOK OUT FOR
“What is your non-consensus view of the world?"
“People are arseholes..."
“When I told people what I was doing, lots of them said, "Well that won't work will it" "
VALUABLE RESOURCES FOR YOU
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hazelrebeccasavage/
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