Marzio Schena - New Market for Music Rights

Authentic Leadership for Everyday People is the podcast where we investigate the connection between effective leadership and authenticity. If you are looking for inspiration and tips on how to become a better leader by being your true self, you are in the right place.

Today's guest is Marzio Schena, founder and CEO of Anote Music. He is a relatively young founder, and he is very candid about the pros and cons of starting a company early in your career, so there are plenty of great insights for founders.

The company is also a great new concept in music: a trading platform that allows music fans and investors to invest in and earn royalties from current catalogues owned by record labels, publishers and artists. It’s a fascinating concept that expands access to funding to a much broader group of artists and at the same time gives access to this market to a broader pool of investors. And it is also a great application of blockchain, which Anote uses to support a portion of its process as you will hear.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

[02:50] – Marzio, welcome. Why don’t we start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell us a little bit of your story?

[3:57] – You are a very young founder, what made you decide to start your own company so early in your career?

[05:05] – How did you go about finding co-founders? Did you have an idea of what type of co-founder would be the right co-founder? And what made a good co-founder in your mind at the time?

[06:22] – How many people are in the company right now, other than the three of you?

[06:47] – As the CEO, how did you decide what the roles would be?

[08:09] – If you think about what kind of CEO you want to be, how would you describe that?

[09:30] – What are the biggest two or three lessons about leading that you have learned in the first few years?

[11:39] – What are the qualities that you look for in people that are coming into your team?

[13:00] – Marzio explains what ANotes does.

[16:47] – How did you start gaining the trust and start making progress in this industry?

[19:37] – What were the two or three moments you had significant progress, a step towards being a viable business?

[20:52] – Roughly how many artists are on your marketplace?

[20:28] – What are some of the key barriers and how did you overcome them with the individual investors and consumers?

[23:40] – As the CEO, how are some of the challenges you face, when you have to rethink the whole approach and communicate that to your team?

[26:35] – What does success look like for you in ten years?

[28:00] – What are the two or three things for someone who wants to start their own business, needs to think about?

[29:18] – For an individual fan who is coming to your marketplace, how does it work?

[31:25] – Simply explaining blockchain.

[33:26] – Do you have any interests or passions outside of work? Is there one that has informed or been helpful in your work?

[34:27] – Is there an expression in business that drives you crazy?

[36:30] – Food for your body or food for your soul?

[38:05] – Thank you and closing remarks.

Contact Dino at: dino@al4ep.com

Websites:

al4ep.com

anotemusic.com

Additional Guest Links:

Anote Music platform: app.anotemusic.com

Discord: discord.com/invite/9ZWfskUPuc

Twitter: @anotemusic

Instagram: @anotemusic

LinkedIn Corporate: linkedin.com/company/anote-music

Facebook: facebook.com/anotemusic

LinkedIn Marzio: linkedin.com/in/marzioflavioschena/

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