Justin Bieber Humming to Orchestra
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Shaan tells a story about Justin Bieber working with an orchestra that demonstrates how taste can be separated from technical skill.
"Have you seen that famous clip of Justin Bieber where he's humming to an orchestra and they're trying to follow along? Go look this up on YouTube. It's Justin Bieber - I don't know if he knows how to play an instrument or not - but he's humming to an orchestra, I guess a 12 or 15 piece set, and he's humming what he wants and they eventually get it.
This is important because skill and taste used to be coupled together. You needed both - the skill is the actual knowledge of how to use the tools, musical knowledge, technical knowledge, things like that. Taste is what do I think is cool, what do I think is interesting, what do I like.
Now with AI, those got decoupled. You don't need the skill, you just need the taste. If you have both, obviously you're going to make better things, but you could still be in the game if you just have taste."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.