A gap use to exist in the world of music licensing. The quality of music available to project teams making promotional videos or materials was pretty low. And for those composing music, getting paid was an untimely event, where checks just sort of “showed up” in the mail.

The Musicbed set out to change that, by providing an online marketplace for music licensing. And in the beginning, Tanner Hearne took on the role as the first in house developer – with the job and goal to take the product to new heights, as a well engineered, scalable and secure platform.

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E2: Tanner Hearne, Musicbed

The quick hit of  a radio show, the impact of a good book, the content control of a news feed - these are some of the things that make podcasts great. Yet, there was something missing when Leah Culver tried to find her next episode to listen to, while training for her 1st marathon, And that thing was a more powerful way to discover the podcasts you love - through your subscriptions, activity, and most of all - through the power of social networking and suggestion. 

So she decided to fix it - and built Breaker, an app that helps you discover new podcasts and episodes based on the content you - and your friends - like most.

E3: Leah Culver, Breaker

Now-a-days, people are introduced to software development through multiple avenues. And it’s pretty amazing how many other industries parallel the thinking and creative process of writing code - teaching, project management… even music. Sean Washington took an unconventional route into software, through writing music and graphic design. Since then he has been sprinting forward, as a full stack web developer and tech podcast host. His most recent adventure has been becoming the CTO and lead developer of the Design Kollective - giving him the opportunity to not only learn the platform - but to make it his own and define the vision for how to up level the product.

E4: Sean Washington, Design Kollective

A born creative, Alvaro Sabido loves to travel and continuously be learning. His engineering background led him to love anything with an engine, and having worked in a diverse set of companies through consulting, IT, radio and media, he became a natural problem solver, interested in innovating to make things better.  When seeing a picture of someone in the military holding a book up to a webcam, attempting to read to their child back home, he set out to create a solution to integrate a video chat and a children’s book - and what would eventually be called Caribu.

E5: Alvaro Sabido, Caribu

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