Ryan Leslie Talk
Ryan Leslie: A discussion on tech entrepreneurship and fandom in the music industry
Wednesday April 17th, 6:30 PM
Conference Room
Recording artist and Grammy Award nominee Ryan Leslie will be presenting an interactive discussion about his experiences with tech entrepreneurship and innovative methods of fan interaction in the music industry. This informal presentation will discuss his relationship with his fans, his music, and the development of his fan-texting platform SuperPhone. Attendees are encouraged to text with Ryan before and during the presentation with any ideas, questions, comments, or topics they're interested in talking about - leave your number at www.textryan.com and he’ll text directly back
This discussion is open to the public, presented as part of the ITP class Fandom: Popular Subculture in a Digital Age.
BIO:
Ryan is a Grammy nominated recording artist, multi-platinum music producer, and avid technologist. In addition to logging studio time with Madonna, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Beyoncé, he is the architect and ultimate case study for his company Disruptive Multimedia’s simple CRM for creators, a Twilio-enabled product called SuperPhone. Bravely opting to remove his latest album from iTunes, he used an inbound SMS campaign to drive over $2MM in gross revenue by selling an album D2C to just 15K fans. He holds a BA in Government from Harvard and splits his time between New York, LA, Paris and Miami.