Tony Lashley

founder/ceo of marine snow
co-creator of pollen @spotify
ex head of marketing & ops at blonded
english/econ @uchicago
@columbia @bcg

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

someone tell me what they said

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

ticketing is really really hard as most of the money is in the top of the market

and big corporations (live nation, aeg) offer buyouts to venues and snap up promoters and festivals to maintain oligopoly

curious to see if partiful raise capital for these buyouts at some point

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

An age old question has finally been answered: How will Partiful make money?

The Partiful team has always been fiercely protective of users. Everything added to the platform has to improve the UX

Ticketing will expand the TAM of events on Partiful + give hosts better tools 🪩

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

i forgot to add streambotting and viewbotting to the hidden tactics that are used to fake the popularity of certain cultural objects

https://t.co/oi7cHveh6m

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

almost every cultural object you think has organically gone viral

has a fair amount of unmarked paid marketing / clipping / (micro)-influencer campaigning behind it

https://t.co/DNK62FX6W9

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

it’s crazy how common the phrase “surprise & delight” was in terms of how consumer tech companies said they wanted to treat their users in the mid 2010s

and how that phrase has completely evaporated from this discourse

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@pridesai 100% i think as the barriers to entry lower having a distinct POV and moving away from utility become more important

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

$400M in music investments in the past 2 days w/ Duetti & Pipeline

Duetti seems a lot more interesting as they are bringing the publishing catalog deals that have been prevalent around for big artists to smaller independent artists

https://t.co/z0B6uYsg2r

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

lovely to be in this with so many people i respect a lot and have respected for a long time

[Emilie Friedlander @AdHocEmilie]

We asked some of our favorite critics, media theorists, technologists, etc to send voice notes with their best guess about the shape of the zeitgeist this year. To our surprise and delight, 34 people got back to us with their 2026 culture predictions.

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@craptor @MoeSquare https://t.co/FGFYTvUY5E

conjectural but seems right

[The Pitchside Pub @PitchsidePub]

FIFA just sold football’s history to the highest bidder.

The removal of analytic data on @FBref is a calculated heist of public knowledge to protect a 2026 World Cup gambling monopoly.

Stats Perform (@OptaSTATS) is taking the heat but FIFA is equally to blame.

A 🧵(1/10)

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

madonna does not get enough credit for maverick records

deftones, the prodigy, bad brains, alanis morissette, candlebox, muse is a crazy roster for an artist label

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@EzraMoGee @blakeir i think nearly everyone of these products has courted a tech / terminally online / twitter audience

rather than a music lover audience

and by doing so have imbued their product with negative status instead of the positive status they are hoping to create

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

dying at this interview

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@shanvasion @pridesai i ultimately agree in some ways though that nostalgia and referencing the past are much more common amongst the younger generation than it ever has been before

i think both points can co-exist. there are new sounds entering the mainstream, but nostalgia is also real

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@shanvasion @pridesai https://t.co/0Fru7j5X89

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

i think intentional misspellings and mispronunciations are going to rise significantly

for one obvious reason and one slightly less obvious reason

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@yrechtman rip vimeo

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@nayfun_evans mine in order, and then with the other albums in the mix that i didn't order

[Tony Lashley @TooonyL]

@Lei_Takanashi you might already know this but this subway station is used extensively for movie shoots and TV shows...most of the time when you see a NYC subway shot it's here