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" Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work. "

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" No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet. "

" When I first got pitched on Uber, I thought it was the dumbest idea ever. "

" I was just a kid in love with hip hop music. I love music. I love the culture. I wanted to be a part of it in any way. "

" With what Enrou was doing with helping women and taking products from local marketplaces, we thought it was really great. "

" You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert. "

" She was a performance artist calling herself Lady Gaga, who had a European dance-club sound and pop-star aspirations - elements that historically haven't mixed. "

" Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail. "

" People don't buy horses to ride around any more for transportation. I just think the world changes. As a business, we have to make the proper adjustments. "

" I'd like to open doors for underserved communities and minorities in entrepreneurship. "

Entrepreneurship

" When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from. "

" My third hire when I came to Spotify was Tiffany Kumar, who came on as our global head of songwriter relations. The whole idea was to put our heads together and figure out how to build and contribute within the songwriting community. "

" When you think about brands and movie studios and everybody who is trying to reach millennials, having a captive audience in the back of Lyft or an Uber is a pretty great place. "

" The venture capital world is completely stacked against minority entrepreneurs. "

" When you sit down with Zynga and Google, and they talk about billions of impressions, you think, music has way more of an emotional connection than technology, but we haven't cracked the code. "

" It's pre-roll or post-roll on Vevo. The record company makes money off of that, and then it trickles down. "

" What I like about Bre.ad is the simplicity of it. When you can explain it to people, like 'five-second billboards in front of a link shortener,' it makes a lot of sense. "

" With the 'Born This Way' album, generally we said, how do we find strategic partners that can help us with our vision? Part of that is about putting the music in places people wouldn't normally put music, like with Google and with Gilt. "

" I come from a place where when you shake someone's hand, it is a deal. "

" I don't think holograms are the future in the music industry. "

" There's less clutter in the beverage category than in the music category. A lot less clutter. "

" If a kid goes and buys a CD at Best Buy, we have no idea who the person is, how many times they listen to it, or anything like that. "

" To me, mentorships and internships are two big pillars in business development. I believe in having multiple mentors. "

" In order to continue the growth, we have to go back to embracing technology and the way that people choose to consume music. "

" Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well. "

" The problem with when you look at eBay is that you can put a pair of Jordans next to a frying pan. It's an altogether different experience compared to having some editorial around it and well-curated experience. "

" I grew up carrying crates of records for Will Smith and those guys. "

" Backplane will provide a platform and tools for communities to socialize and communicate on a more focused level. "

" A lot of corporations now have venture arms that are investing in young entrepreneurs or building programs within so you can disrupt yourself internally instead of looking to those external factors. "

" We look to find partners whose values align with that of our artists. We also look for unique platforms that the potential branding partner can provide. Sometimes that's distribution, and sometimes it's an advertising platform. Each situation is unique. "

" The only two things that ever came naturally to me are music and investing. "