Guy Oseary

Maverick / Sound Ventures

[Guy Oseary @guyoseary]

Two weeks in. Very excited about our new members: best in class operators, creatives, and artists @GetAccess.

[Michael Goodbody @mcgunome]

Two weeks ago we opened @GetAccess

Since then: an Oscar winner, Grammy and Emmy winners, two NBA champions, 27 unicorn founders and 26 public-company C-suite leaders have joined.

The investors founders want most are the hardest to reach. Not anymore.

[Guy Oseary @guyoseary]

Rowan is the founder of The Rundown AI, the world's largest daily artificial intelligence newsletter with an audience of over 3.5 million people. We are honored to have him join the @sound_ventures_ family.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Personal news: I’m joining Sound Ventures as an advisor.

Fun story, Guy Oseary first reached out back when The Rundown had 150K subscribers.

I had no idea what I was doing, and I’m still not sure why he took the call...

But we’re at 3.5M now, and I’ve learned he has a real gift for spotting talent early, whether that’s in music or through early investments like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Fortunate to be on the receiving end of that, and even more grateful for his mentorship along the way!

What makes Sound different is how much they focus on brand, marketing, storytelling, and distribution, which in my opinion is the most important thing right now.

It’s never been easier or cheaper to start a company, but the flip side is that new startups pop up in the same categories every day. What makes one stand out is the ability to tell its story.

I’ll also be getting a closer look at what’s coming before it’s obvious, and I’ll be sharing what I’m seeing with you.

Excited to join my friends Roberto (@rpn) and Tiff (@TiffinTech_ ) as advisors alongside a deep bench of marketing and media minds.

Let’s go.

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Gerry Cardinale's RedBird Capital, Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures Ink $1 Billion Investment Partnership https://t.co/QzgNhjDsw8

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Gerry Cardinale's RedBird Capital, Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures Set $1 Billion Investment Partnership https://t.co/i9P6AXl22n

[Guy Oseary @guyoseary]

Some news today: Gerry Cardinale is a friend and someone I’ve admired and respected for a long time. I’ve witnessed firsthand how in just 12 years he has built RedBird from an idea into something truly special. A powerhouse of a platform.

Today, I’m honored to announce a $1 billion partnership between RedBird and Sound Ventures. This partnership will allow me to do more of what I love most, backing the greatest visionaries in the world.

Gerry, Hamid Biglari, Robert Klein, Julia Wittlin and the entire RedBird team share our passion for innovation and our ambition to partner with the people shaping the future.

My partner Effie and I along with the entire Sound team are excited for this partnership.

https://t.co/SohImHF2i7

[Variety @Variety]

Gerry Cardinale's RedBird and Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures Team on $1 Billion Fund Targeting Tech, Media and Culture Investments https://t.co/qLqrRozZsW

[Warner Records @warnerrecords]

History made. 👑 @Madonna is the only artist in modern history to score six #1 club records in the UK from a single album campaign

[People @people]

Madonna Has Somehow Only Won 7 Grammys and Hasn’t Been Nominated in 16 Years. Will She Finally Get Her Flowers This Year? https://t.co/psRlpbrhZh

[Get Access @GetAccess]

The short version of why we exist:

"Founders want more than a check, and some of the most capable people in business have had no way in. We built Get Access to make those connections at scale."

- @mcgunome , CEO
https://t.co/b9dvYn322D

[Katie Roof @Katie_Roof]

Exclusive: Get Access is a new invite-only platform for individual investors to access later stage deals than what angel investors normally have access to (like Crusoe’s recent round). The platform comes out of beta today with an $85m valuation https://t.co/neLOBoMEgE

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

Exclusive: Get Access is building a private club for late-stage startup investing. The startup just nabbed an $85 million valuation. https://t.co/WtQ8HuMZGf

[Warner Records @warnerrecords]

Congrats to @Madonna on an incredible night at the 2026 @MTV #VMAs — winning 7 awards, the most of any artist this year! ⭐️

[Roberto Nickson @rpnickson]

Today I’m proud to share that I‘ve joined Sound Ventures as an advisor.

Few people recognize exceptional talent and transformative ideas as early as @guyoseary and I’m looking forward to seeing that up close.

Sound was the first firm to take significant early positions in both OpenAI and Anthropic, with Guy personally sourcing the Anthropic deal.

There’s no other venture firm with the depth of marketing and brand knowledge that Sound has, and I’m excited to work alongside their Founders to help tell their stories.

[TBPN @tbpn]

.@guyoseary says competing against Jimmy Iovine's Interscope Records forced him to develop an "act-quick intuition" for spotting talent.

"When we started Madonna's record label, it was just four of us. No one knew what to make of it. And Jimmy was on fire. I was always thinking, 'If I don't act quickly, he's just going to pay them more and get them.'"

"My biggest successes were always the things no one else wanted. For example, Alanis Morissette. Every single label passed. She came in, played me one song, and within 30 seconds I was like, 'I'm in.'"

"I developed that act-quick intuition. It really just came from the fact that I had to. Otherwise, someone else would figure it out, overpay, and then I couldn't do the deal."

[TBPN @tbpn]

Sound Ventures' @guyoseary on identifying creative talent versus entrepreneurial talent:

"My job was to identify musical artists before anyone had heard of them, sign them very quickly, and then help them reach an audience. So when I meet a founder, it actually feels the same."

"I always listen to every startup pitch like it's a song, an album, or an artist, and I say, 'That guy's got talent. He's a rock star. We just need to make sure the world knows it.'"

"I feel like I've been doing the same job since I was a teenager, which is identifying talent and helping them reach an audience."

[TBPN @tbpn]

At 17 years old, @guyoseary, who went on to manage artists like Madonna, U2, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, received hundreds of demos from musicians looking to get signed to his record label.

He compares the early days of his career discovering top-tier artistic talent to finding the right founders to invest in.

"Starting in the music business, [the AI market] feels like the early days where you're just getting demos everywhere."

"You're walking out of a club and people are like, 'Here's my demo, here's my demo, here's my demo.' How can I tell which one [to sign]?"

"If you put in enough work, time, and diligence, it starts to become a little more obvious."

"I literally was like 17 years old with 100 demos. The first three demos I heard, I had my favorite, second favorite, and third in order. But 100 in, those three are not even in the top 20."

"You have to do a lot of work, you have to listen, you have to meet a lot of people."

[Guy Oseary @guyoseary]

Welcome to the Sound family .. time to turn up the volume 🎵

[Alex Heath @alexeheath]

I’m joining Sound Ventures to invest in the tech industry I’ve been covering for the last decade.

Ten years ago, I set out to have a front-row seat to the biggest stories in tech. I’ve sometimes played a part in them through my reporting. Along the way, I’ve gotten to know many of the most influential founders shaping the future. Now I want to back them.

I’ll continue to run Sources independently of my work at Sound. The newsletter is continuing, and I’m investing more in the podcast, which has an amazing roster of guests lined up.

I got into covering Silicon Valley because I’m insatiably curious about what technology makes possible. It’s time to follow my curiosity again. https://t.co/kaclAXwwAL

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

This year’s VMA nomination count: Madonna with 11, Taylor with nine, Geese with one

https://t.co/UlS4Pln1ez

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Madonna and Taylor Swift lead nominations for the 2026 #VMAs.

Madonna earned 11 nominations, while Swift got nine, and Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande are tied for third with seven each.

See the full list of nominations:
https://t.co/cFnokIbkfp

[billboard @billboard]

Madonna Leads 2026 MTV VMA Nominations: Full List
https://t.co/PiySniDFtq