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Tony Lashley is a music industry professional and entrepreneur currently building the curated music streaming platform he co-founded, Marine Snow. Marine Snow signs exclusive licensing deals with artists so that the music you have on the platform is available only on Marine Snow for the 90 days of the licensing agreement. Before starting Marine Snow, Tony worked at Spotify in music marketing strategy & operations, and then at Frank Ocean's music label, Blonded, as Head of Marketing and Operations.

In the interview we talk about Marine Snow, the inspiration behind it, and how it operates, as well as defining cultural, historical, and critical significance, web3 financial models and giving subscribers and artists ownership, curatorial governance in finding and signing music, how AI and other technology will affect the music industry, his experience working at Spotify and at Blonded, his mentors, including Matt Pincus the founder of SONGS Music Publishing founder and current CEO and founder of MUSIC, a music business investment company, and much more.

Find Tony here:

Twitter- https://twitter.com/TooonyL

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/spiceboytony/?hl=en

His Curatorial Governance Piece- https://mirror.xyz/0xb8B251e3d23d1BEb45331c430eE12eF6fDca19dd/UuUNoucCfvrGCJFK56Gg296IW8LxJgad5AVCbuC8GzI

Find Marine Snow here:

Website- https://marine-snow.co/sss

Twitter- https://twitter.com/marine_____snow

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/marine_____snow/?hl=en

And Jake here:

Twitter-https://twitter.com/cryptabel