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" I invested in Uber in 2011 when it was only in San Francisco. "

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" When you look at how technology companies are funded, it's not a zero-sum game. It could be 20 investors in one company, and everybody has to work together for the benefit of that company. "

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

" 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. "

" It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters. "

" There was a time when radio stations wouldn't play Gaga's music because it was considered dance. Outside of live performances, the Internet became our primary tool to help people discover her music. "

" 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. "

" If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop. "

" When your back is against the wall, your brain has to function at a high level. "

" We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us. "

" If you wake up in the morning and your favorite artist isn't on the service that you're paying ten dollars a month for, sooner or later you lose faith in the subscription model. "

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

" There are not a lot of black men in the pop business. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think piracy itself is going to end up going away. "

" The way it works is the manager's sort of, you know, is like the hub of an artist's career. "

" You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally. "

" Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music. "

" I don't think we're out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We're not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities. "

" You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you can add to the vision - but you just can't make an artist like that. That's like saying Lebron James' high school coach made Lebron James. "

" Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors don't have a fan base that just follows them around. With musicians, the fan base just goes everywhere they go. "

" Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry. "

" Priyanka and Red One made a great record that we think will stand on its own. People won't buy the music just because she is who she is. We want them to buy it because it's good. "

" I think overall, and this isn't specific to Spotify or any streaming service or any label... when you consider the overall value chain of the music industry and how important the songwriter is to the business - I think there needs to be another look at the value chain. "

" I didn't go to business school. I actually didn't even graduate high school. I ended up with a GED. So everything that I've learned in business, I've learned through experience. "

" I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it. "

" It isn't that every company is going to be successful. The law of averages shows that 80% of companies are going to fail. "

" The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.' "

" On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped them become global superstars. "

" 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. "