Scott Cohen joined JKBX in 2022 as founding Chief Executive Officer and investor. One of the music industry’s most notable pioneers, Cohen co-founded The Orchard – the world’s first digital distributor of music. Established in 1997, The Orchard – now owned by Sony Music – gave independent artists and labels a platform to sell their music to mainstream audiences and has since become the leading distribution company with 45 offices worldwide. Cohen retired from The Orchard in 2019 and joined Warner Music Group as its first-ever Chief Innovation Officer – a role uniquely tailored to Cohen’s expertise.
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In an October 2023 interview on Music Business Worldwide’s “The MBW Podcast,” Cohen explained his vision for the future of the music industry:
“What I’d like to see is a future where music, as an asset class where regular people buy it, is completely normalized. That this is no different than investing in real estate, or investing in shares of Apple or Tesla or Microsoft… That’s kind of my future. When we started The Orchard… we were telling people not only will people be consuming all their music digitally, [they will be] creating digitally, and this was just a mind-blowing thought for people.”