Ted Kartzman believes in the power of music, and has been inspired since childhood by how music shapes our culture. Ted has spent the past 25 years immersed in the independent music industry, applying technology and to help level the playing field for independent artists, labels, distributors, festivals and brands.

In 1999, Ted co-founded startup JamBase.com and moved to San Francisco where the promise of the world wide web was alive and golden, with the goal of supporting like minded bands and getting free concert tickets! Through a tour date engine and music news portal, he built a 1000+ client marketing company, a business that is still alive today.

As legal digital music was becoming real, he moved into digital music licensing, partnering in 2001 with Listen.com to launch a white label of pioneering music subscription service Rhapsody. Ted worked on the first streaming subscription deals for live music, then directly for Real Networks after Rhapsody was acquired, overseeing global independent label licensing. In 2008, Ted went to work at San Francisco based IODA to manage clients as VP of Client Services, then was hired by Google, working first at Android and then on the team that launched Google Music and then Google Play, licensing over 100 million tracks in the process.

In 2015, Ted moved to YouTube, managing relationships with the largest independent music distributors, maintaining his commitment to independent voices.

Today, Ted coaches arts and technology startups and founders on how to grow and develop their business, how to manage partnerships and build culture, helping independent businesses grow with integrity.