About Dean Wilson
Disruptors and curious minds!
Welcome to another packed show of emerging tech and culture insight, reality and dreams.
This week we’re talking about music, IP, house music and creating real bi-directional value between musicians and fans!
Dean Wilson, CEO and Founder of SEVEN20, wants to change the culture and business of the music industry. With blockchain.
First on the chopping block is outdated music management. Dean and his partner deadmau5 want to put artists at the forefront of partnership-driven models.
Musicians and Super fans first.
Then comes the bigger vision for creating, developing and distributing new IP and equity deals.
“SEVEN20 opened by establishing its own publishing company and followed by building several specialty labels under Wilson’s creative direction. Now, the company has entered partnerships with multiple blockchain DSPs including Audius and Emanate who seek to transform the way music is distributed and commodified. Wilson sees these systems as a way of unshackling artists from the burdens of traditional platforms and democratizing distribution for everyone.”
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Quotes From Dean Wilson
“What do I do post vinyl?”
“We had a huge 3-week number one with a track which we wrote with Daniel Beddingfield - Gotta Get Through This.”
“One day Mark Gillespie who was the talent Booker at God's Kitchen in Birmingham - one of the big super clubs in the UK - rings me and says “Oh I found this kid on MySpace called Adam Wiles. His name's Calvin Harris.””
“That was the start of the explosion of the first company 360. We had deadmau5, Chris Lake, Nero, Feed Me, Calvin Haris, and at some point the Swedish House Mafia. We had a pretty big chunk of the top 20 electronic DJs in the world.”
“We decided we needed to find a US partner. That became Jay Brown and JayZ at Roc Nation and in the next two-three year ride was a spectacular ride to the Moon with breaking Calvin and the Rihanna record and boom! Calvin was a worldwide Superstar.”
“I'm a big picture guy I look at try to look at everything realistically from the top down and then see what the opportunities are and what do we need to do.”
“What excites me is the underlying technology and computing power and the speed of the internet that will allow us to do “fill in gap.””
“Discord has shown us a vision of the future where we can connect with our fans in real time without a pay wall.”
“What we've been trying to build is a version of Only Fans meets Discord. It’s called AMP-D.”
“In music, the 1% of the 1% are richer than they've ever been.”
“Forward facing it's got to be, “Okay, this doesn't look scary. I don't have to write my seed phrase down and put it in a shoebox under the bed or bury it somewhere and all of this crazy stuff that you have to do.”
“The Super Fan wants everything. They want to be the first to know, the first to engage, the first to buy. They want to feel like a community, like family.”
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More Quotes From Dean Wilson On Emerging Tech, Amp-d and the superfan
“The Super Fan wants everything. They want to be the first to know, the first to engage, the first to buy. They want to feel like a community, like family.”
“People forget that fan clubs are not a new thing.”
“Stop using the buzzwords. Use words that people use every day and see what happens.”
“I’m excited about the fundamental layer of the technology and what we can vertically build up from there.”
“We’ll keep chipping away for change in the right way. For transparency and real time accounting so it can help people run their business in their lives better and get paid better.”
“Forward facing it’s got to be, “Okay, this doesn’t look scary. I don’t have to write my seed phrase down and put it in a shoebox under the bed or bury it somewhere and all of this crazy stuff that you have to do.”
“A big record will make you a star, but those are hard to find. You can have a great career if you can do all of these things and create a fan base that people are excited about.”
“We have to provide tools that are really really easy to use. Really
easy to upload a video. Really easy to hit one button stream. Really easy to put pictures up there, or put stems up there, or put wavs in there. Just simply drag and drop, send.”
“What do I do post vinyl?”