Marcus Cobb

Tech Co-Founder/CEO @ MusicBiz board member. RollingStone CC music lead. Payments for the creator economy. 💙

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

@united failed to load my bags. Attendant at BNA cut me off, didn’t even look at me took my info & said I’d get a txt. Cold service. Can I speak to a supervisor “no”, can I have their name, “no”, can I have your name “I’m not giving you my name”. UA used to care. Sad. No empathy.

[HirexHire @HirexHire]

It's getting cold in the Windy City but the start-up community is HOT! November was a strong month in the Chicagoland area when it comes to startup growth, with 17 deals closed totaling over $159M across various industries!

#vc #pe #funding #chicago #startups #growth #tech

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

I've served on three boards.

One was a prominent private university. One was an exceptionally fast growing company about to go public. One was a small private company that owned their niche.

Every board meeting was about money. We barely talked product, customer (or student) experience, brand, or anything remotely close to the thing the company did. It was fundraising and financials, and, for me, frustration.

It was mystifying. We don't have a board at 37signals, so I didn't have my own experience to fall back on, but wow, I just didn't get it.

If you're going to have a board, make it an advantage, not an obligation.

Find the best damn product people you can, and take advantage of a half-dozen incredible improvement-focused minds you could never hire to work for you, but are there for you.

A product board. A service board. A board in service of the product, or a product for the service.

[Brendan Bycroft @BrendanBycroft]

Project #2: LLM Visualization

So I created a web-page to visualize a small LLM, of the sort that's behind ChatGPT. Rendered in 3D, it shows all the steps to run a single token inference. (link in bio)

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

As a weekend hobby I think I'm gonna build a JARVIS, throw it on Github. #Containerized, specialized #AI apps, service bus, prioritization, use #ChatGPT for phrasing. 1 thing missing is a situation constructor. i.e. What Jarvis says when a friend is at the door?🤔Train on video?

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

True. One of the first AM radio stations ever was WLS. It stood for "World's Largest Store" by Sears. 24/7 radio ads. They sold farm equipment. Occasional music to break it up. They didn't pay extra for the music. It's not social media it's all ad-supported business models.

[Adrien(id) 🟩 @AdrienStern]

SocialFi will kill the promise of Web3 Music - better music monetization.

Let me put it this way: Social platforms have never compensated music creators adequately, and there are no signs this will change.

Actually, the more social a platform, the less it pays musicians:

- Not Social (Bandcamp, iTunes) Hi Pay
- Social-ish (Spotify, Tidal) Mid Pay
- Very Social (TikTok, YT, FB) Lo Pay

When user engagement becomes the North Star, is there still room to maximize creator payouts? After all, paying is a friction point, and friction kills engagement.

As Spotify has shifted its focus towards engagement - capturing the listener’s time (Friends tab, Podcast, Live, etc) - the payout to creators has consistently dropped.

We are now seeing this same trend happen to some Web3 music platforms.

So should artists be worried about Web3 music platforms becoming more social? Should we expect a similar devaluation of music? Can engagement & creator monetization both grow?

These are honest questions & I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

@davidfowl Nah. They're just late to the party 🎉

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

@brendankennedyy Fans. Monetized.

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

Would you believe me if I told you that the puppet is not real but a 3d asset controlled in real time like a video game?

The animation and lighting are awesome 👺

💡 Unreal Engine 5 + Lumen + Rec Lights + Control Rig

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

@davidfowl Native support for shorthand Property mapping assignment. No one does it well. Fastest performance is hand typed assignments but it's error prone - forget to add new props. Reflection based loops are less error prone but expensive. There's gotta be a better way

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Roblox took yet another step towards becoming the YouTube of 3D, and generative AI is playing a central role.

What started off as code assistance and texture generation has now evolved into speaking entire 3D worlds into existence.

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

We’re at the point with AI + coding where you can just give the AI a URL to some docs and it will learn the library.

Insane.

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

Just. Insane.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

The metaverse meets AI.

Illumine AI can turn a 2D Midjourney image into a 3D world.

Insane.

[Cristian Peñas ░░░░░░░░ @ilumine_ai]

@rowancheung Thanks so much for sharing Rowan!
Midjourney-to-3D is still a work in progress, but I plan to integrate this tool in my main app instaVerse, where you can already test skybox-to-3D (generator is powered by @BlockadeLabs) ✨

https://t.co/bPBuP7Xbpv

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

@clairecohen @ciaogirl9 I read both, tone is way less judge'y imo. This movie can come out like Monae's nipples bcuz people are tired of being called dangerous & tone deaf for every off-center thing they do. You're homogenizing morality & art. You're a writer. Fetishes abound. Not everything's a cause

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

@davidfowl C'mon @davidfowl...you can't think of onneeee factopinion you agree with??? Like...always use StringBuilders for large string concatenation?? Not onneee 😉 🤓

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

@RickStrahl This is new behavior. Used to be IndexOutOfBounds right? 🤔

[Marcus Cobb @immarcuscobb]

Hard to overstate the science here

[Smoke-away @SmokeAwayyy]

In June 2022 a quadruped robot learned how to walk directly in the physical world without simulators in just 1 hour.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

What an insane week in AI 🤯

Unity AI
AI Antibiotic
Minecraft AI
MIT: Math AI
Picture-to-3D
Google Starline
Nvidia Game AI
Google Flood AI
ChatGPT in Court
TIME: Humanity End
Neuralink FDA Approval
42% US Not Used ChatGPT
Japan No Copyright OK for AI

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