# Mikey Shulman

Co-founder and CEO, Suno. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. His AI music app makes about 7 million songs a day, a Spotify catalog's worth every two weeks, according to a pitch deck Billboard obtained. ([billboard.com](https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-ai-music-startup-cover-story/))

- Education: PhD, Physics, Harvard University, 2015; BS, Applied physics, Columbia University, 2009 ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeyshulman), [sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/podcast/sunos-mikey-shulman-everyone-can-make-music-now))
- Career: Suno (Co-founder and CEO, 2022 to now); MIT (Lecturer, 2018 to now); Kensho (Head of Machine Learning, 2015–2022) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeyshulman), [theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/19/ai-music-company-mikey-shulman-suna), [mikey.one](https://mikey.one/))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/mikey-shulman/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/mikey-shulman

- Did his Harvard physics PhD on quantum computing with solid-state spins. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/podcast/sunos-mikey-shulman-everyone-can-make-music-now))
- Spent years playing in bands, recording and gigging in New York City before starting Suno. ([lsvp.com](https://lsvp.com/stories/sunos-hit-factory/))
- All four Suno co-founders met at Kensho, the Cambridge finance AI company where he was the first machine learning hire. ([lsvp.com](https://lsvp.com/stories/sunos-hit-factory/))
- Before launch, Suno could only make 12.5-second clips that didn't always follow the lyrics; it tested demand with a Discord bot, copying Midjourney. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/podcast/sunos-mikey-shulman-everyone-can-make-music-now))
- Suno generates about 7 million songs a day, equal to the entire Spotify catalog every two weeks. ([billboard.com](https://www.billboard.com/pro/suno-ai-music-startup-cover-story/))
- Says 90% of Suno's daily users make something, which he compares more to gaming than to Spotify. ([sequoiacap.com](https://sequoiacap.com/podcast/sunos-mikey-shulman-everyone-can-make-music-now))