AudioShake is a startup with roots in a Tokyo karaoke bar.

Jessica Powell vividly recalls singing with her friend, Luke Miner, as they kept asking: “Why are the karaoke songbooks so slim? Why don’t we have all the songs in the world? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could just sing along to any song you wanted?”

That was in 2013. Powell and Miner wouldn’t co-found AudioShake—which specializes in audio separation and processing technology—until 2021. Powell came to startup founder life from a unique vantage point: She was at Google from 2007 through 2018, ultimately leading communications at the search giant (Miner’s a data scientist, who previously worked at Plaid). Since 2021, Powell has been CEO of AudioShake and long before ChatGPT came out and voice AI hit the mainstream, she was us

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