A consistent theme of this series has always been entrepreneurship. And with over 300+ episodes produced thus far, we have featured dozens of successful startups and their founders. What makes this episode so unique and compelling is the overwhelming success of both speakers, and how young they both are! Watching them grow their companies is so inspiring and exciting. And it gives me great hope for the future of the music business.

Nikki Sanz is the Founder and CEO of Giggs, the career platform and media company she built after years working shows for Eric Church, George Strait, Live Nation, CMA Fest, and the Super Bowl. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, she's grown Giggs into a live-events industry hub of 40,000+ vetted pros and 2,000 companies, raising $1.2M from 35 investors and landing a deal with Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph along the way.

Travis Terrell traded life as an East Texas fiddle player and tour bus driver for entrepreneurship, co-founding Soundstripe in 2016 to rethink music licensing for the creator economy. As Soundstripe's President, he's grown it into one of the fastest-growing licensing companies in the country, serving over a million customers in 160 countries, with API partnerships at Amazon and GoDaddy, two Inc. 5000 nods, and five straight Top Workplaces awards.

This promises to be a very informative and entertaining discussion that will be the best hour of your week. Check it out!

The Smartest People In The Room® is a series of one-on-one conversations between music industry executives and personalities hosted by Tom Truitt, Managing Director of the Music & Live Entertainment practice. These hour long conversations draw an audience of hundreds and feature every type of global music industry executive, including agents, managers, attorneys, business managers, promoters, publishers, working musicians, songwriters. The audience is global, with strong concentration in music business centers like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin and more.