Joey Flores

Chief Executive Officer

Joey dropped out of high school when he was 16 to pursue a career at Taco Bell. By 18, he was a broken-hearted car salesman. Two years later, he and some friends went to a Tool concert in Los Angeles and he decided that moving there seemed like a good way to piss off his parents. It was that year that Flores finally sat behind the drums that he had always wanted to play.

Since then, Joey was head of business development for a startup that got bought by a big ass company. He took over operations of the startup after that and grew it from $19M to $48M in two years. It was awesome.

With the money his kind bosses departed on him for his contribution, and pages of raps he had written, he formed a very expensive band with Yotam Rosenbaum and recorded an album that is his greatest accomplishment (so far). When it came time to market the album, he figured it would be a piece of cake. It was not.

It seems that nobody has really figured out how to run effective online marketing for new music. And so, that’s what Joey is doing now. Figuring out how to run effective online marketing for new music. Once he cracks the nut he will return to the stage, hopefully to play for more than the 50 people he used to play for.

Joey’s favorite kind of music is Tool.

Yotam Rosenbaum

EVP of Music and Artist Relations

When he was five years old Yotam started taking piano lessons. A few years later he was terribly disappointed to learn that playing piano requires practice. As a result he started playing trumpet (stupid move, as trumpet is one of the most demanding instruments on the planet) and spent the majority of his coming of age making his neighbors miserable. His real passion as a kid was for the drums, but for some reason he was convinced that drums are for bad boys who fail at school, and he didn’t want to be perceived as one. Only at 17 he got over the shame and became a drummer, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA (that last part is BS, they don't even have GPA in Israel).

He later graduated Magna Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music, majoring in composition, but he failed the Latin class and couldn’t understand the meaning of it all. Upon graduation he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a composer. He composed music for a bunch of TV shows, commercials, and movies. He also produced a few CDs, and composed music which was performed and recorded by seriously good musicians. Yotam won the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, the JCCP Award, and the 2010 Hummus Man Award. Anyone who knows the details of these competitions will tell you that the Hummus Man award is by far the most impressive.

Yotam’s favorite kinds of music are jazz and classical.

Benjamin Bryant

VP of Technology

Benjamin Bryant is best known for developing the Gummy Programming Method. Over 14 years of innovative software development and technology management Bryant learned that the most effective teams are motivated teams. Nothing motivates a team more than gummy bears. Developers are given one gummy bear for every feature they release, and two for large features.

This sort of reward economy approach to development comes from Bryant’s dual focus in finance and technology. With an MS in Finance from London Business School and a BS in Computer Science from University of Michigan, he is able to come up with the precise reward structure for optimum team performance. He has validated his methods with really small companies like Time Warner and Deloitte.

The best thing about the Gummy Programming Method is it works on everybody. Ben himself ate multiple gummy bears throughout the development of the Earbits technology platform, particularly the night that we released bookmarking of songs, or the time he added color palette pickers to our automated affiliate radio station launcher thing. Oh, and he built the automated affiliate radio station launcher thing.

Ben’s favorite kind of music is indie rock, and he listens to Tom Petty a lot.

Roshmond "Sum" Patten

Artist Relations Manager, Hip Hop and R&B

Sum once battled Busta Rhymes while lighting Mos Def’s cigarette. He once dodged a fist fight with Cee-Lo Green, survived Yo-Yo’s dancefloor seduction, performed with the Dalai Lama, and was interrogated in a strip club by Kool Keith. A member of Black Sheep stole his mom’s car in the 80s, and Method Man accidentally kicked him in the forehead with a Timberland boot in the 90s. Lauryn Hill had a crush on him for ten minutes and invited him backstage for mac and cheese. He has discussed lunch plans in a dominatrix house with Too $hort, who was casually spanking a Russian babe during the conversation. Too $hort suggested $5 footlongs from Subway. Sum once participated in a barter with a member of The Pharcyde that involved bison burgers, a Triple 5 Soul jacket and a copy of the Tao Te Ching. Point is, hip-hop culture is Sum’s life, and it has taken him to some interesting places.

The North Carolina kid always loved music, but became unhealthily obsessed after his mom convinced him to play the clarinet. In a music-lust trance that lasted two years, he wrote clarinet covers of everything that was hot on the radio in the late 80s; from 3rd Bass to Michael Penn. As you can imagine, everything sounded more awesome on clarinet. This love for songwriting lead him to become a daredevil emcee & songsmith in modern times who has moonlit as a copywriter, social media manager for Fortune 500 clients, major magazine editor, DJ and hip-hop journalist. In 2008, he innovated and managed his own online community, The Good Look, designed to empower and market indie artists using a novel subscription-based model that many have since emulated. His many hats are the source of his many skills and his many strange stories. Pints of Guinness Stout and Jameson shots are the quickest way to get these tales out of him.

Sum’s favorite kind of music is classic Blues and De La Soul, but he has deep love for all genres.

Scott Feldman

Artist Relations Manager, Rock and Pop

Scott Feldman received a degree in creative writing & literature from The University of Wisconsin in 2005 - said degree hangs, obsolete, on a paint chipped wall at his parents’ house on Long Island. Shortly after fulfilling his academic potential, Scott moved to Los Angeles, where he started a mediocre rock band. Almost immediately after its inception, Scott’s first difficult decision as bandleader was to fire the most mediocre element of the band; drummer Joey Flores, current CEO of startup online radio company Earbits Inc.

Joey’s departure hit the band harder than Scott anticipated; it was eventually forced to disband entirely. After a slew of odd and miserable jobs, Scott was hired to go on several tours across the US & the world as a guitarist, keyboardist and background vocalist. In 2007 Scott started his own music production company, Darkbloom Productions, and the following year was hired to assist in the music production and supervision of FX’s hit drama Sons of Anarchy. Scott has since composed, produced & musically directed for a bunch of very impressive people and companies!

Scott’s favorite type of music is lo-fi, hipster stuff and the predecessor of everything, The Beatles.