Join us as we dive into the fascinating journey of Hazel Savage, a trailblazer in AI and music tech. Discover her unique insights on entrepreneurship, and her experiences in building and selling a successful AI company. Hazel shares her candid thoughts on the challenges and triumphs of innovation, offering valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs.

If you're looking for a business and entrepreneurship podcast that will inspire, motivate and educate you, through the personal business journeys and entrepreneurial lessons learnt of Leeds business owners then this is the podcast for you

INTRODUCING HAZEL SAVAGE

With 18 years experience in the music industry, Hazel is a music-tech lifer, guitarist and currently the CEO at Syntho. Previously, in 2018 Hazel was the CEO and Co-Founder of Musiio, an AI startup which sold to SoundCloud in 2022. She started her music-tech journey as an early employee at Shazam and has also had the privilege and experience to work at Pandora Internet Radio, Universal Music, BandLab and HMV.

Hazel travels globally speaking at conferences and talking to catalogue owners about the value of artificial intelligence integration and digital transformation in the music industry. As a female founder in the heavily male-dominated industries of music and tech, Hazel seeks to offer insights with interesting and humorous anecdotes, as well as easy-to-follow explanations and use cases of artificial intelligence technology.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

[00:00:00] Introduction to Syntho and Hazel's journey

[00:02:30] Retirement and the call to action

[00:05:15] The Incubator experience, finding a co-founder

[00:10:34] From Idea to Execution; Starting Musio

[00:16:15] Navigating the Exit; selling Musio

[00:32:30] Back to the grind and embracing the hustle

[00:36:00] How to ideate for a start-up idea

[00:45:00] Building Leeds Angels

3 KEY TAKEAWAYS & BUSINESS LEARNINGS

• Have strong beliefs, but loosely held
• Get as many experts as possible to kick the tyres on your business idea
• If you don't have bad days, you can't have good days

“What is your non-consensus view of the world?"

“People are arseholes..."

“When I told people what I was doing, lots of them said, "Well that won't work will it" "

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ABOUT YOUR HOST

Phil Fraser went from an accidental kitchen table start up, with no investment, all the way to multi-million pound sale to a PLC 18 years later. He’s travelled the full SME business journey of launch, growth, scale and exit.

As well as hosting the Leeds Business Podcast, Phil now works with ambitious SME-owners as a Business Sounding Board (think somewhere between Business Coach and Business Mentor). In simple terms, he’s ‘a pair of ears and an extra pair eyes’ for SME Owners helping them to be better at what they do. Phil’s mantra is It doesn’t need to be ‘lonely at the top’. He helps Business Owners to be better business owners, by helping with their clarity and focus.

As a Business Sounding Board, he gives SME Owners the time & space to regularly discuss their challenges and opportunities, with no sense of judgement or bias, and in complete confidence. This allows them to explore their options in full, culminating with a list of issues to address/clarify, a clear target in mind, a roadmap to success, and a renewed enthusiasm and confidence for the challenges ahead.

Want to work with Phil to help you? See www.philfraser.co.uk.

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