+20 years ago I had a pop-star manager as my client

… +20 years ago I had a pop-star manager as my client. Super successful, resourceful with a business card holder filled to the brim; yet always on the lookout for opportunities. One day we were chilling and I drawn a concept of a novel music platform. It wouldn’t distribute music (people could download it whatever) but instead granted unlimited license for a fee, and then based on telemetry tracking divide fee between artists and take some percentage as a profit. We discussed it in detail and shrugged off as impossible to execute. Few years later Spotify came out and yet it took it 5 years to enter national market (due to licensing issues that came up during conversation). I often looked at that conversation and brought up two lessons I learned. First: anyone can come up with a magnificent idea, but it’s about execution and not daydreaming. Second: even if you have everything you needed (there we had skills and resources) success is heavily context based. Spotify could launch because they had friendly environment. My was hostile to license innovation, so we could do jack-