In this episode we’re talking to someone very special, who’s done many things.

Always looking ahead and always thinking outside the box.

His name is Benji Rogers and he is the founder of Pledge Music, a board member of SAE - the renowned school for all thing music & video -, a serial investor and advisor in many music and tech companies, and the founder of the Dot Blockchain Music project!

Benji was so kind to take the time to speak to us at Ludlow House in New York.

The Dot Blockchain Music project is the attempt to create a global decentralized database for music rights, in the blockchain.

I know that sounds very technical! But firstly, we all know how important trackable music rights are to make sure that artists get paid fairly; And Benji has good analogies to explain what the blockchain does. But on top of that, we also speak about the industry more generally and he tells about his approach to using platforms like Facebook to interact with fans - what he recommends you do and what you shouldn’t.

Please note that this interview was recorded a few month’ back, so you might have heard that Benji has now left this company. But nothing we talk about has lost its relevancy.

The DotBlockchainMusic project is something that feels like it should already have been created ages ago, because it’s just fair to artist. Well it hasn’t and Benji took on the task.

I think he’s a very inspiring person for all of us, challenging the status quo, and utilising the newest technologies to do so.

Enjoy!