Cherie Hu

Abstract

Water & Music is an independent newsletter and research DAO , a decentralized autonomous organization, dedicated to tech innovation in the music business. Founded by Cherie Hu in 2017, the community bridges Web 2 and Web 3 with a focus on collaborative music production, the exchange of research and emerging music technology and platforms. Paying community members have access to premium articles, collaborative research reports and databases on topics including “Music NFT Drops ,” and tracking “music tech fundraises, exits, and IPOs.” Hu has grown the community to thousands of paying members across music and entertainment and has been an expert speaker on music tech at Harvard, NYU, and on CNBC. With the advent of Web 3 , Hu is building a "research token " for Water & Music, having participated in Seed Club, a DAO accelerator that helps communities build their own social tokens. Water & Music derives its name from a 2015 HYPEBEAST interview with Kendrick Lamar and Quincy Jones, in which the latter declares: "The last things to leave this planet will be water and music."