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And, uh, I think to my, uh, parents' relief, I chose music.

Uh, was a music major, um, uh, as an undergrad, and then very, uh, immediately after school, went out to LA and started working as a composer for movies and TV shows and video games.

Ended up coming to New York to go to Columbia, and right when I came, uh, sort of without planning it this way, my, who became two co-founders and IFounded a company called Amper Music, which was one of the first AI music companies of sort of the modern era.

This was 2014.

And we raised venture capital, uh, this was sort of in parallel with going to grad school, um, and built what I think is sort of one of the defining AI music companies of, of sort of our era.

We sold the company to Shutterstock in 2020.

Value in introducing AI to the creative process and creating that discourse between, uh, human and machine, or human and, uh, you know, this new form of intelligence, and that the, the audience will value it too, right? As so long as the human's still engaged.