Welcome Mikey Shulman, Co-Founder and CEO of Suno on this episode of 🔥 The Lantern 🔥
Suno is building a creative entertainment platform where people come to find the joy and fulfillment of making music.
This team is changing the place that music has in society. They’re letting anyone, from music lovers to Grammy winners, actively participate in creation.
🔍 What is Mikey and his team building at Suno? 🔎
Suno is betting that the future of consumer entertainment is more creative, less passive, and that music gets bigger as it gets more social. Over 100 million people have already tried their product.
📈 What’s ahead for Suno in 2026? 📈
They’re already generating $300M+ in revenue (as of Feb ’26) with over 2 million paid subscribers…and the team is just getting started.
Their newly released “Voices” feature lets people use their own voice and hear themselves in a song.
Next are much bigger investments in social features, so people can interact with each other through music, from friends to relatives to their favorite artists.
🤔 How has Mikey’s job changed running this AI platform at this scale? 🤔
More planes, more interviews, and a real shift in how the team operates!
Mikey describes walking around with “a data scientist in my pocket,” using natural language to query Suno’s own data and spinning up little apps for whatever task comes up.
Static product mocks are mostly gone, replaced by working prototypes the team can actually play with and see.
💡 What’s one thing you’ve learned in this moment that other founders should hear? 💡
The time horizon for planning is dramatically shorter.
Things move so quickly that copying what you’ve done before stops working, so the team is forced back to first principles on almost every decision.
It’s hard, but also more fun!
🤝 How can we help Suno? 🤝
Go use the product, make some songs, and share them with your friends.
Suno is hiring across all roles in all locations – Cambridge, NYC, SF, and LA. Check them out!
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