Building Blockchain and Music Tools with Morgan Hayduk from Beatdapp

Oct. 11, 2022

Morgan Hayduk initially aimed for basketball and law — and thank goodness kept going into building new tools and working with large organizations to fight fraud and manipulation in streaming music.  He shares with us his adventures in building his personal Toolkit of marketing, scaling, and selling — plus working with his blockchain wizard co-founders — to launch the audit and anti-fraud muscle of Beatdapp.  He shares what could be a great primer on the challenges of blockchain in music and why a million somethings can seem important for a startup.

Guest: Morgan Hayduk, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Beatdapp

Morgan Hayduk is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Beatdapp, an entertainment technology company. Ranked #2 startup in Canada and Top 20 Music Companies globally by TechCrunch, Beatdapp is building digital supply chain infrastructure for the streaming economy. Prior to founding Beatdapp, Hayduk led enterprise growth and partnerships for ZipRecruiter (NYSE:ZIP), was the Director of Federal Government Relations for TELUS Communications, and served as a consultant for Canada’s leading boutique government relations firm, Crestview Strategy.As a consultant, Hayduk specialized in entertainment & technology, representing Music Canada (the domestic trade association for Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music) and Hasbro’s entertainment studio eOne, along with Facebook, Uber and TELUS. Hayduk was part of the team that led to the passage of Canada’s signature music copyright protection legislation, which extended copyright from 50 to 70 years.  LA Clippers – Corporate Partnerships manager, Telus, Federal GovernmentRelationsHayduk earned his MBA and B.A. from Trinity Western University in Vancouver, British Columbia and resides in Toronto, Ontario with his wife and two children. 

Mentioned Links:

  • Email: morgan@beatdapp.com
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-hayduk-9206b456/
  • Michael K Williams, Vice, Black Market – Rage Against the Machines – https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/rage-against-the-machines/61d74f386562686c0c1f2a51
  • Dec 11, 2017, Evan Symon, “The Hellish Reality of Working at an Overseas ‘Click farm’, https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2550-the-hellish-reality-working-at-overseas-click-farm.html

 


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