Derek Sivers, originally a professional musician and circus clown, 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.\nHe is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks.\nSince 2011 he has published 34 books, including \u201cAnything You Want\u201d which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories.\nEpisode 72: Trying to Pursue Many Different Directions at Once and Get Specific by Derek Sivers (Reading Inspirational Blog Posts).\nThe original posts are located here:\nhttps://sivers.org/donkey\nhttps://sivers.org/get-specific\nPlease Rate & Review the Show!\nVisit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com\nand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts!\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices