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.He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks.Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including “Anything You Want” which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories.Episode 198: How Do You Grade Yourself and Valuable to Others, Or Only You by Derek Sivers (Inspiration & Motivation).The original posts can be found here:https://sivers.org/gradehttps://sivers.org/starving-artistPlease Rate & Review the Show!Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.comand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices