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A pattern is emerging across teams, products, and markets — and it changes how serious people should think about live music is the last unbundled experience.
What's tricky is that the leading indicators are noisy. Vendor revenue is up, but so is churn. Talent moves both ways. Job postings list contradictory requirements. The strongest signal is what experienced practitioners do with their own…
The shift began quietly. A handful of teams, working in parallel and mostly unaware of each other, arrived at similar conclusions: the old approach optimized for a constraint that no longer binds. Hardware got cheaper. Models got smaller.…
If you talk to the practitioners actually shipping in this space, they sound notably less excited and notably more confident than the hype cycle suggests. That contrast — quieter, more grounded enthusiasm — is usually the signal you want.…
Don't rebuild your strategy around a single data point. Do update your priors. The cost of a small adjustment now is far less than a full pivot in six months.
A pattern is emerging across teams, products, and markets — and it changes how serious people should think about live music is the last…