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Jayden Clark didn’t abandon music. He re-scored it for distribution.

After music school, a hedge fund tour, and a B2B SaaS sprint, he launched MOTS—short, sharp episodes designed to be both of the moment and built to last a quarter.

His north star isn’t “go viral.” It’s “be clear.”

The insight is disarmingly pragmatic: structure is not the enemy of creativity—it’s the amplifier. Lists compress cognition.

A beginning–build–end gives every clip a runway and a landing.

When a five-replies-deep roast on X unexpectedly detonated, MOTS podcast already had the scaffolding to catch the surge. That’s the signature move: follow a consistent weekly cadence, then publish “emergency episodes” when the culture pops.

The result is a feed that feels alive without feeling random.

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Key Topics Covered

• Career path: SF Conservatory → hedge fund → B2B SaaS → MOTS + Atlas Media Labs
• Jazz formulas = content formulas: two-five-one progressions, building blocks, beginning-middle-end
• Why lists work: digestibility, structure, pattern-matching
• "Neither timely nor timeless": weekly SF tech culture + emergency current-thing episodes
• Emergency episode #1: Brian Chesky's bench press
• The viral ratio: Meta Ray-Bans clip → five-tweets-deep → Theo's reply → Seth's "roast" GIF
• "16 hours of screen time": the competitive advantage
• Distribution strategy across Twitter, YouTube, Apple, Spotify

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Timestamps:

00:20) "neither timely nor timeless"

(00:51) Keeping the music alive

(02:10) SF Music → hedge fund → SaaS → pod

(03:20) Jazz improvisation: a content strategy

(03:42) Building blocks & two-five-one progressions

(04:35) How to make content easily digestible

(04:53) The @theo ratio backstory

(06:46) @sethsetse viral quote-tweet

(07:17) Emergency pods vs. weekly episodes

(07:22) Emergency Pod #1: @bchesky's bench press

(09:42) Where to find @mots_pod
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Where to find Jayden Clark:

X: @creatine_cycle
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jayden-clark-75991a1aa

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Where to find MOTS Podcast:

X: @mots_pod
YouTube: @motspod
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/mots-pod

Where to find Atlas Media Labs:

Website: atlasmedialabs.com

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Where to find David Phillips:

‍X: https://x.com/davj

‍LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davjphillips

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