When Tracks Replace People w/ Matt McCoy

Did you have any idea at the time, like kind of where it was headed or you were just trying to solve a problem in the moment?

I had no clue where it was headed.

And you know what? When I started it, it was never going to be a business.

It was literally just a hobby.

I was a worship leader.

I loved using loops in worship.

I loved making my own.

And I just thought, Hey, this would be a fun like website to start.

And I threw on some PayPal buttons just to cover the cost of, I had a couple of guys who were making them and just was just trying to cover the cost for those and also the licensing costs.

But that was it.

I never thought, oh wow, this is going to become something that 100,000 churches around the world are using.

I would have never, ever imagined that.

Was there ever a moment where you thought, man, this is changing the worship culture of how people are functioning in their churches?

Yeah.

I knew growing up in small church plants, I knew that this tool could be something that would revolutionize like churches of all sizes.

So when I started this, when I started it, I was on staff at Willow Creek, which at the time was like the third largest church in America.

Leading the way in multi-site and all this.

Yeah.

And we had every band member you can imagine and orchestra and choir and like, and we still were using tracks at that size of a church.

Yeah.

And actually, when I got there, they were barely using tracks.

But then so I saw it from like mega church, like how tracks could be used there.

But I also knew being a pastor's kid at a small church setting up in the school auditorium, like what a game changer tracks could be in that size church when your bass player calls in sick or you don't even have someone that can play piano.

and how then you could still have quality worship and have it sound really great.

And this was a tool that you could do it with.