Jason is a South African / American entrepreneur and music lover. He founded his own music blog Indieshuffle and later SubmitHub, a platform connecting bloggers and playlist curators directly with artists and labels. His persistence led him to eventually be able to make his passion for music a full time business, while providing value to the music and media community. After years of running a music blog and reviewing releases, events, concerts as a side hustle, while working a normal 9-5 job, Jason landed a ‘big deal’ with a media company that helped him build a team of developers to scale the platform. Unfortunately, life went sideways when the big deal fell through and the media company went off business. Jason was left stranded in Europe with not much left besides debts to pay and his drive to create something meaningful, but his can do attitude got him back on his feet and made things work out. In this interview, we uncover Jason’s path from being born in Cape Town, to studying and working in the U.S., travelling in Europe and building his own business. We talk about entrepreneurial challenges such as making things sustainable and hiring people. Furthermore, we extensively discuss the state of the media in the music industry and the obstacles that artists are facing nowadays to break through. Last but not least, we uncover how to overcome difficulties and how persistence is key, like throwing spaghetti at the wall until it sticks. -- Jason Grishkoff (SubmitHub) -- Connect with Jason: [email protected] (if you are interested in using SubmitHub, you can also mention this podcast and get credits) Speak with Jason: Submit hub chatroom SubmitHub: https://www.submithub.com Indie Shuffle: https://www.indieshuffle.com Adam Heaton (Spotify Playlist curator and also our HoS guest #8): https://www.adam-heaton.co.uk/playlists Book we mentioned about the founder of CD Baby: Derek Sivers - Anything you want -- Home Of Sound -- Subscribe to our newsletter: bit.ly/HoS_Newsletter Subscribe on YouTube: bit.ly/HoSYoutubeSubscribe All latest links: https://linktr.ee/home_of_sound HoS X Adam Heaton: guest interview + playlist: https://www.adam-heaton.co.uk/playlists/home-of-sound