“It’s not really enjoyable to make music now” states the CEO of an AI music company

Making music is something the CEO of an AI music company despises. On the Twenty Minute VC podcast, Mikey Shulman, the CEO and co-founder of Suno AI, recently expressed what may be one of the most foolish views of 2025: that most people detest creating music.

We didn’t want to build a company that makes the current crop of creators ten-percent faster, or makes it ten-percent easier to make music. If you want to impact the way a billion people experience music, you have to build something for a billion people. That is, first and foremost, giving everyone the joys of creating music. And this is a huge departure of making music. It’s not really enjoyable to make music now. It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you need to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.

Suno’s ideas are probably plagiarized from real copyrighted content. Many of these AI companies are simply using a large portion of pre-existing music that they have never been granted permission to use. Therefore, anything you’re “creating” using Suno is only a dingy copy of something that already exists. This probably goes without saying, but it’s likely that Shulman doesn’t know what he’s saying.