In this episode of My Beautiful Mistakes host Andy Saunders talk to Sergio Mottola , Co-Founder & CEO of Public Pressure.

Public Pressure was originally launched in London in 2015 as an online community and magazine dedicated to giving a voice to emerging artists and labels. Today, it’s a global Web3 media company with a carbon neutral NFT marketplace designed to support the transition of music to Web3.  Focusing on the interactions between music, fashion, culture, and technology, it powers a fair and equitable, direct-to-fan strategy for creators. Public Pressure is built on Polkadot/Kusama, which has the lowest total electricity consumption and carbon emissions per year of the six proof-of-stake (POS) blockchains. It is also the most robust, modular and secure of POS chains and joins all other blockchains into a unified network to enable the creation of smart contracts.

Sergio talks to us about his life and career to date, his early ventures into tech based businesses, his pivot into the European political arena and the development of Public Pressure as a leading exponent of Web3 and Metaverse solutions for the music, fashion and gaming industries. 

in this special edition of My Beautiful Mistakes Tom Allen and Richard Leach the co-founders of Curve Royalty systems talk about how they prefer to be known as entrepreneurial problem solvers rather than royalty geeks and how they built their company from humble beginnings  into a seven figure turnover mainstay of the global music industry, representing many of the worlds most successful independent music companies. 

Our final guest of 2020 is the Lancashire born,  working class son of a window cleaner whose early academic promise saw him earn a scholarship to a good school and then a place to read economics at Newcastle University .

 It was there that he formed a band with some fellow students and after completing his studies moved down to London to try his luck at making music his full time job much to the dismay of his parents. 

 When things didn’t work out with the band he searched the job ads in Music Week and secured a position  as a production manager at a little known compilation and novelty record label eventually ending up via several moves at EMI. 

 A serendipitous move into catalogue marketing and then a hugely successful stint running the mighty Parlophone label and overseeing artists such as Blur, Radiohead , Coldplay and boyhood heroes The Beatles were staging points on his way to the very top of EMI before the ill-fated takeover of the company  by venture capitalist Guy Hands saw him edged out.

Tony Wadsworth , made a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List in 2011,  talks to Andy Saunders about all of this , what he's up to these days and more in this week’s edition of ‘my Beautiful Mistakes.'

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Publish: Dec. 14, 2020 @ 7PM Edit

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