Musician recounts fumbling three fortunes: a Jobs keynote opener, an Airbnb jingle, and $2.4M in NFTs
adamamcbride · x · 2026-10-20
Musician Jonathan Mann (songadaymann) shares three times he "fumbled the bag":
- Steve Jobs used his song to open a press conference — with no payoff for him.
- In 2008, pre-funding, he wrote a jingle for Airbnb and missed out on the company's later explosion.
- He made — and then lost — $2.4 million selling his songs as NFTs.
A self-deprecating retrospective on near-miss windfalls that resonated widely.
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