Mikey Shulman

14 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 10, 2025 by Mikey Shulman · said 6 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Jan 10, 2025
Disclosure
Shulman: Suno prioritizes user growth twice as much as revenue
“If you, like, you know, hold my feet to the fire, maybe I can give you a quantitative number of, I care about growth twice as much as I care about revenues.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 43:53 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mikey Shulman: Human taste will outweigh technical skill in future art
“It's increasingly taste is the only thing that matters in, in, in art, and skill is going to matter a lot less because you're going to be able to make a lot of stuff And the people who are going to be recognized are people who are able to pick from the vast qu…”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 51:53 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Insight
Mikey Shulman: Great AI software UI must enable novel workflows
“The UI should just in no way resemble what it does today. But I think good UI is just like, what did you enable that is like completely not doable in the old pattern?”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 38:04 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Shulman: Suno was built in-person, only allowing remote work exceptions
“We never, you know, we built the company in person, and we make exceptions for people to be remote.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 40:46 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shulman: AI companies will soon stop releasing standalone raw models
“At some point, I don't know if it's version four or version five, there will be a last model release that is released as a model, and everything else is just product releases.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 4:39 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
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Shulman: Most artists privately admit to using and loving Suno
“The vast, vast majority of artists that I speak to Behind closed doors admit that they use and love Suno.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 26:33 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Shulman: Quantum computing startups face fundamental physics challenges, not engineering ones
“The challenges are not they're still physics challenges. They're still like basic research challenges that have to happen here, and so it's not something where you can kind of just turn the crank and make companies out of it, and to my knowledge, all of the co…”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 7:08 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
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Shulman: Suno's edge is audio representation, not model architecture
“Our competitive edge here has not been to innovate on the architecture, and has been to innovate on the, Audio representation.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 5:06 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Insight
Shulman: Infinite AI supply lowers individual track value but increases music's overall worth
“I think it reduces the average value of any given piece of content, but I think it greatly increases the value of music to society or to any given person.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 5:53 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 negative
Insight
Shulman: Empty text box UI is wrong for most AI products
“They did every AI company a huge disservice because everybody thinks that just like empty text box is now the right interface, and it is for ChatGPT, and it is incorrect for basically everything else.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 39:11 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Shulman: AI music fan fiction is more engaging than artist AMAs
“What I can only describe as the equivalent of fan fiction, if she wants that, and that would be an immensely engaging activity, in my mind, way more valuable and way more engaging than like having an AMA with her, if you're a huge fan.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 28:02 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Opinion
Mikey Shulman: Creating AI songs for loved ones is more social than streaming
“Like, that is not something, that is so much more social than what exists now, where you listen to music from artists, and you love the music, and you see a piece of yourself in the artist, but you don't actually interact with them.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 50:21 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 neutral
Insight
Shulman: Hit songs succeed via algorithms and promotion, not quality alone
“I think that they probably reverse the causality. Things break on TikTok, and then they become famous on Spotify, but that is a function of both algorithms and people pushing music, and not necessarily only a function of the quality of the music.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 34:00 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Insight
Shulman: Judgment and taste are underrated compared to skills
“I think judgment, you can call it taste, you can call it judgment, is like so underrated on how important it is. It's like compared to people's skills.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 41:05 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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