Mikey Shulman co-founded Suno in 2022, building an AI music-generation platform that lets users create full original songs, including vocals and instrumentation, from short text prompts. As CEO, Shulman has overseen explosive usage growth, with the platform generating several million songs daily, alongside a valuation that more than doubled within seven months in early 2026.
Shulman has had to navigate Suno's growth alongside significant copyright litigation from the recorded music industry over the data used to train its models, a tension common across generative AI creative tools but particularly pronounced in music given the industry's established licensing infrastructure.