Steve Gottlieb

Based in New York, entrepreneur Steve Gottlieb founded TVT Records in his studio apartment in 1985, building it into a $100 million company. Along the way Steve received much notoriety including appearing on Crain’s New York business.com list of 40 Under Forty, a collection of profiles featuring rising New York entrepreneurs. Steve Gottlieb made a host of important musical discoveries at TVT Records, including the renowned band Nine Inch Nails. Other artists included Pitbull, Lil Jon, Ja Rule, Sevendust, the Ying Yang Twins, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. In addition, Steve Gottlieb created the Television’s Greatest Hits series with TVT Records, which is still used today by TV theme lovers and production libraries around the world as the authoritative source for TV theme genre audio history. The first label to offer free downloads from its library, TVT Records was also one of the first licensed partners to provide a hit repertoire in the early 2000s to digital companies, such as Napster, LLC; Rhapsody International Inc.; and LiquidAudio.org. Steve Gottlieb also founded TVT Music, an independent music publisher, in 1988. At TVT Music, Steve Gottlieb controlled song rights to hits from artists, including Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Beyoncé, Pink, Chris Brown, Nine Inch Nails, Ja Rule, Dr. Dre, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, T-Pain, and others. In 2010, Steve Gottlieb sold TVT Music to Reservoir Media Management. While overseeing TVT Records and TVT Music, Steve Gottlieb also served on the board of directors of MusicMatch, a digital music player software firm eventually purchased by Yahoo. Steve Gottlieb counseled the company on how to maintain its position as a leader in the music player market. During the early 1990s, Steve Gottlieb acted as founder and CEO of Vacuum Tube, a local music television venture. In the late 1990s, he founded BioBox, a company that creates packaging for music products that cannot be copied. As an investor and patent holder for the products, Steve Gottlieb believes that this packaging is more attractive to consumers and producers than digital files, which are easy to copy. Today, Steve Gottlieb owns and acts as CEO at Shindig, an Internet company that offers cutting-edge video chat platforms. Recently, Manik Bambha, former Director of Technology of Myspace Inc., joined Steve Gottlieb at Shindig as Vice President of Engineering. Together, they aim to build the company’s patent-pending software for the web and create ne