Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava built a platform whose samples appear in chart-topping hits including Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' and Lisa's 'Money'. Under her leadership, Splice acquired Spitfire Audio and moved aggressively into AI-assisted music creation, putting her at the center of a fight over what AI means for working producers and composers.
Srivastava's career path, Flickr, Yahoo, GitHub, Adobe, then Splice, gives her a rare vantage point on how creative tools communities break or hold together when automation arrives. Her argument is not that AI is bad. It is that AI-generated communication is quietly destroying the human back-and-forth that makes creative industries function. That tension, between AI as tool and AI as replacement, is what this interview actually excavates.
The full interview goes deeper than the headline. Srivastava gets specific about how Splice is drawing lines between AI features that serve creators and those that cannibalize them, and why she thinks most companies are getting that distinction wrong. If you work in music tech, creative software, or platform strategy, the granular reasoning here is worth your time.
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