This week on RRE POV, Raju and Will sit down with multi-hyphenate creator and founder Máuhan Zonoozy. The guys dig into how he’s woven together a career across finance, law, media, and tech to build a new kind of music software label through his latest venture, A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya. After evolving from a Tumblr-era music kid to an investment banker to his most recent role as Head of Innovation at Spotify, Máuhan is now betting on a simple idea: music should be a verb. 

This episode unpacks learnings about pairing creativity with structure, designing from first principles instead of copying what came before, and why the only real reason to start a company is when you simply can’t imagine doing anything else. At A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya, Mauhan is quietly building a world for the next generation of music makers—one centered on creating rather than just pressing play, whether you’re a producer, a DJ, or just the friend who always owns the aux.

Highlights:
(00:00) Introduction

(05:25) Máuhan's Tumblr-Era Music Blogger Origins

(08:01) What Máuhan Kept From Finance and Law

(11:33) Always Knew He'd Return to Music

(14:21) Moving to LA for Music Journalism

(18:26) Founding Bubbl

(25:09) Being Early vs. Being Wrong

(26:01) Lessons From BCG Corporate Innovation

(28:54) The Innovator's Dilemma at Scale

(31:25) Inside Spotify's Innovation Team

(35:21) Why Leave Spotify?

(37:36) Máuhan's Weekend AI Startup

(41:00) Selling a Company in LinkedIn Comments

(42:53) The Lowered Barriers to Software Creation

(45:28) Introducing A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya

(47:22) Music as a Verb, Not a Noun

(50:00) The Bop Product Launch

(59:47) Gatling gun segment