The story behind Artlist

Ira Belsky, Artlist

Today I’m talking to Ira Belsky, the founder of Artlist.

Ira was a filmmaker and recognized a really painful problem with licensing and sourcing creative materials. I want to find out how he transitioned from filmmaker to bootstrapped entrepreneur.

Artlist provides royalty-free music and SFX for video creators.

Ira Belsky

Artlist

Ira Belsky is the founder of Artlist, Royalty-Free Music and SFX for Video Creators.

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner, and I’m coming to you from Austin, Texas from a very rambunctious and wild house today. I’ve got with me IRA Belsky. He is the founder of art list, which, um, it’s subscription service that offers royalty free music and sound effects for people who are for you tubers podcasters, like me and anyone who’s creating and doesn’t want to have to.

Deal with copyright strikes and other issues, and frankly wants to pay the artists and get good collection music, dude. Here’s why it’s crazy here. My, my kid’s teacher got COVID fine. She seems to be doing okay. I take my kid into school suddenly. They say school’s closed and. What am I going to do? And so we have just been inviting their, my kids’ friends over to the house.

And every day it seems to be another kid and another kid at another kid. We basically have, uh, a kindergarten up there of...

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