Mignano: Tech never democratized music creation until generative AI
Mike Mignano · The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator · Nov 28, 2025 · at 5:12
Lightspeed partner Mike Mignano discusses the investment thesis behind AI music generator Suno with Y Combinator's Garry Tan.
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“If you look back at the history of all the products that have done this in one form or another over the past 25 years, nobody's done it for music. The reason, you know, we believe is that Technology up until AI did not make music creation easier, right? The camera made photo taking easier, the camera phone made photo taking easier, the microphone made podcasting easier, the camera made video easier, but we never really had a technology that, you know, democratized music creation”
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