As AI floods streaming services with over 100,000 new tracks a day, Nathan Reardon asks Pat Villaceran, founder of CITY JAM, why she is betting on the human. Pat Villaceran explains INDUSTRY.AIFF, her accelerator and incubator model for record labels, built around artist development, songwriting and the trust and relationships that software cannot mass-produce. The advantage, they argue, goes to whoever invests in the human soul.

Chapters

00:00 Intro: what happens when music is almost free to make?
03:51 Technology will not replace human creativity
06:46 The doctor analogy: disconnected specialists
09:43 How labels bet on artists
11:29 An AI artist in country music
15:31 The human aspect
18:45 Is INDUSTRY.AIFF's job less about using AI?
23:41 A song made in a bedroom, released worldwide
25:51 Why a limited cohort each quarter
28:31 When content is abundant, value moves to identity
32:16 The cost of scale
35:37 Advice for a label CEO
39:31 Why act now
41:15 Close

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ABOUT PAT VILLACERAN

Award-winning POLYMATH: Author, Artist, IPO-driven Venture Builder. Creator of the signature 3,000% growth programme INNOVATIONLABS. Mentor to Fortune 5000 CEOs and founders of 8–9 figure firms. Founder of K88 by KASSIDIAN, Innovation Philosophie, CITY JAM and INDUSTRY.AIFF. Humanity 3.0 is her own blueprint. New York, London, Singapore.

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