Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998.
It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians.
In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education.
He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks.
In 2011, he published a book which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories.
Derek Sivers lives in Singapore, where he is creating his next company.
Entrepreneur’s Guides to Asia
Code, creations, ideas
Books I’ve finished recently
Inspiring quotes about music
Tales from my CD Baby experience: Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
Free e-book for musicians about promoting your music and navigating the music industry.
3 short talks from the TED Conference.
7 short animations from my book “Anything You Want”.
Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
Talks from other conferences, all subjects.
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Feel free to email me at derek@sivers.org
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