Entrepreneur, programmer, avid student of life. I make useful things, and share what I learn.

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Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers

Official Bragging Bio

Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998.

It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians.

In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education.

He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks.

In 2011, he published a book which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories.

Derek Sivers lives in Singapore, where he is creating his next company.

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Projects

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Wood Egg

Entrepreneur’s Guides to Asia

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50 Pop

Code, creations, ideas

stack of books

Book Notes

Books I’ve finished recently

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MusicThoughts

Inspiring quotes about music

Books

Anything You Want - book cover

Anything You Want

Tales from my CD Baby experience: Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.

Marketing Your Music - book cover

Marketing Your Music

Free e-book for musicians about promoting your music and navigating the music industry.

Videos

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TED (ted.com)

3 short talks from the TED Conference.

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Anything You Want

7 short animations from my book “Anything You Want”.

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Uncommon Sense

Entrepreneur lessons learned from starting, building, and selling CD Baby.

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Conference Presentations

Talks from other conferences, all subjects.

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