How Suno Grew to $300M in ARR by Democratizing Music Creation
From Subversive by Phil Carter
April 30, 2026 · 51 min
About this episode
Mikey Shulman discusses how Suno democratizes music creation and achieved significant revenue growth.
Mikey Shulman is the cofounder and CEO of Suno, an AI music generation platform that allows anyone to create full songs with lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation from a simple text prompt. Prior to founding Suno, Mikey was the first machine learning hire and Head of Machine Learning at Kensho, an AI company acquired by S&P Global for over $500 million. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, a degree in applied physics from Columbia University, and is a lifelong hobbyist music...
People in this episode
Host: Phil Carter
Guest: Mikey Shulman
Topics covered
- AI music generation
- entrepreneurship
- music creation
- machine learning
- business growth
Keywords
- Suno
- AI music
- Mikey Shulman
- music creation
- entrepreneurship
- Kensho
- S&P Global
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Suno, Kensho, S&P Global
Places: Harvard University, Columbia University
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