Jacob Singh — Co-Founder
Me: A skinny 13 year old kid in Oakland. I wanted to be popular, but I spent most of time hacking into BBSs with a 14.4k modem. Like many nerdy teenage boys before me, I tried playing guitar. It didn’t work, but I got pretty good at guitar. I tried to sing along too. More than anything I wanted to be a singer. But I sucked. I thought I was just (not) born with it. 25 years later, I was fooling around covering this Johnny Cash song, “Give My Love to Rose.” I was really hamming it up. And somehow, it kinda sounded good. I figured, “hey, I’m probably dying of COVID anyway, so why not post it on Instagram?” Shockingly, I got tons of positive comments, even from my musician friends. A couple things happened from singing that one song: 1. I learned what kind of songs and range made sense. 2. More importantly, I developed confidence. Confidence to start taking vocal lessons; confidence to try and get feedback from others; I learned to increase my range and how to interpret songs to fit my vocal characteristics. I won’t be winning any Grammys now, but I write songs and I've performed a few times. I didn’t have a “bad voice” any more than I have a “bad guitar”, I just hadn’t trained it. **The songscape:** 60% of people sing in the shower, or the car or the kitchen, but only ~15% of them feel they are competent singers and 75% of people believe (incorrectly) that singing is an innate trait rather than a learned skill. If everybody wants to sing well, and it is achievable, what is causing the gap? 1. People are scared to sing in front of others 2. The instrument is inside - you need feedback which is personalized to fix it. 3. They are trying to copy the wrong voices We’re here to solve this. SingOneSong will create one hundred million new singers in the next 5 years using AI. How? * Fun and bitesized (like Duolingo) * Actionable advice (through our proprietary AI to act like a vocal coach) * Lessons in your own voice (through advanced vocal cloning) * Songs picked just for you (through our proprietary timbre matching models)
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Open Source expert with a strong focus on product and engineering leadership.
Location: Delhi, India
Experience: 26 yrs 1 mo
Career Highlights
- Co-founder of an innovative AI singing coach.
- Led product and engineering for India's largest online supermarket.
- Established Acquia India, pivotal in its $1Bn acquisition.
Work Experience
Sing One Song, Inc
Co-Founder (8 mos)
Alpha Wave Global, LP
CTO in Residence / Investor (2 yrs 2 mos)
Career Break
Personal goal pursuit (8 mos)
Sequoia Capital
CTO in Residence (1 yr 3 mos)
Blinkit
Chief Technology Officer (3 yrs)
Self-Employed
Dad, Friend, Student (1 yr)
Acquia
Regional Director, India (Country head) (3 yrs 9 mos)
Director Learning, Acquia U (10 mos)
Principal Engineer (4 yrs)
Amnesty International
Consultant Technical Project Manager (1 yr)
CivicActions
Tech Lead (2 yrs 2 mos)
CalabashMusic.com
Technical Director (1 yr 9 mos)
Value One
Head of Sales and Marketing (CRM) (5 mos)
Jacob Singh Consulting
Principal (5 yrs 8 mos)
Prison Book Project Inc
Coordinator (4 yrs)
Education
AS at Berkeley City College
