![]() ![]() “These tech investors never heard anything like that,” Diplo remembers. ![]() “We don’t have any investments in our company,” he replied. It was July 2020, and Behles and another Ableton executive were on the call with an unlikely group of potential investors: Diplo, the DJ-producer Scooter Braun, the entrepreneur who manages Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, among others and Joshua Kushner, brother of Jared, husband of model Karlie Kloss and head of Thrive Capital.Īt one point, as Diplo recalls, one of the investors asked the two men from Ableton, “What do you guys think about us being part of you?” They proposed an investment that Diplo said would have been a “significant payday” for Ableton, which sells software that changed the way recordings are produced, then how DJs performed, and finally the sound of pop.īehles didn’t budge. Gerhard Behles, a founder of the music-production software company Ableton, had a polite answer to the venture capital power players on the Zoom: No.
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