Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of mixergy.com, which you know is home of the ambitious upstart. For a guy that’s never gotten into a fight, and is an adult, I really do a fist a lot, but the fist is “Give my Freedom!” Anyway, today it’s not about the fists. It’s about the story, and I’ve got a story for you of Mark Montgomery, a musician who came to Nashville with $800 in his pocket, tried to make it big as a musician, failed to make it big as a musician, and then he discovered the Internet.
That’s what led him to launch and sell a business for $25 million. That business is Echo Music, a digital marketing and distribution company, which aimed to facilitate direct communication between artists and fans. Let them communicate directly with each other. Today, he is running Flo Thinkery, a company that starts companies. I invited him here to talk about how he built Echo Music, and...