Pim Betist

Founder SellaBand.com

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Pim Betist is a passionate music lover. Instead of using his masters degree to climb the ladder in the corporate world, he gave up his job. Pim had a vision of how things could be different in the music industry, all he needed was to get in touch with the right people to pursue his dream. Then he met Johan Vosmeijer and Dagmar Heijmans and SellaBand was born.

SellaBand is an online platform that empowers unsigned artists to record a professional album that is funded by fans. The website went live august 15 2006. So far 25 artists have reached the $50,000 target necessary to record an album. More than 2 million dollars has been invested in unknown talent so far.