Your comment is besides the point. My point is, at no point did SoundCloud have &quot;humble beginnings&quot;. At no point would SoundCloud have considered a business relationship that would have allowed its customers to block investment. The SoundCloud you are dreaming of never existed.<p>Now if you believe that you can run a SoundCloud competitor that:<p>1) supports over 250M monthly listens and 12 hours of upload every minute with fewer than 200 employees and lower overall costs
2) be cash flow positive the entire time, or secure investment for someone who doesn&#x27;t care about a return (you should really join the rest of us in 2016, the art-funding model of the renaissance is long over, just ask Kanye West[1])<p>Then you should do it, or at least think about doing it. However, I feel as if you are really underestimating what it takes to build a service like SoundCloud.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;2712119" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;genius.com&#x2F;2712119</a>