Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage

1 · · March 21, 2013, midnight
The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom, the CEO and VP of a hugely-funded Silicon Valley online music company contacted me, saying they wanted to fly out to New York to meet me. I said OK, and we met a week later for dinner. Dinner was a lot of blah blah blah smalltalk, and I wondered what they really wanted. Then they finally got to the real point: “The reason we flew out to meet you is because we’ve been looking at many music recomm...