About Derek
I am a…
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Musician, World traveler
Bio
Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians.
In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education.
He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks. He's best known for his 3-minute talk "How to Start a Movement - Leadership Lesons from a Dancing Guy."
In 2011, he published a book "Anything You Want", of 40 lessons learned from starting, growing, and selling his company. From 2013-2014, he published 33 new books about 16 countries in Asia.
Derek Sivers lives in Singapore and New Zealand. His writings are all at sivers.org
I'm passionate about
musicians, entrepreneurship, programming, internationalization
Areas of expertise
entrepreneurship, Music, Programming
Things you might not know
entertaining children. (I was the ringleader/MC of a circus for 10 years.)