Matt Singer, Musician and Founder - Music Moves Him

<div id="block-b50b22fdfba18c957258" class= "sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2"> <div class="sqs-block-content"> <p><span style="color: #e67e23;"><strong>Join Sal's Investment Syndicate:</strong></span> <strong><a href= "https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates">Click to Join</a></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #2880b9;">This podcast is brought to you by Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson:</span> <a href= "https://www.fr.com/team/j-peter-fasse/">https://www.fr.com/team/j-peter-fasse/</a></strong></p> <p>While in prep school Matt Singer performed at a religious ceremony and became fascinated with the impact his music had on the congregants. This fascination led Matt Singer to major in music at Yale, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude, and to think of how to make a life in music. Matt hit the streets soon after graduating to start his music business. For ten years he built Dawn Treader Production with marquee names such as Paul McCartney, James Earl Jones and the New York Philharmonic. Relying on the emotional connection possible on TV, he sold the CDs he produced by the tens of thousands on QVC. In 2007 he joined co-founder Amanda Eilian, in starting a company that is now changing the way large enterprises communicate with their customers and employees via video. Videolicious makes it easy for employees to produce polished videos personalized to particular clients that make emotional connections. The platform is now used by 4,000,000 users in 100 countries, it’s even taught at 90 schools of journalism. Backed by Amazon and VC money, this startup is poised for continued growth.</p> <p>This is the story of someone who followed what seems to be an impractical passion but managed to create something that is useful to large numbers of paying customers. Listen to this candid and introspective conversation with a young man who thinks deeply but acts practically. In particular, I liked what he had to say about how founders can prepare their psyche for the arduous jo