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" Now we know that if we make a ten min video for YouTube, people will watch it. "

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" 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. "

" Mattel stepped up and changed the face of Barbie. Barbie looks a lot different than she did decades ago. Or even three weeks ago. "

" The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level. "

" Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets. "

" When we're looking at strategic partners, it may be that they're larger partners or big corporations or start-ups. But, when you look at Gilt and places like Amazon and Starbucks, they're all places where it's a lot of foot traffic or digital traffic. "

" Coming from the music business and seeing the transition from artists to fans, fans to consumers, it's really about understanding the psychology of why people want to associate with your brand. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When we look at transportation in America, there's going to be companies like Magic Bus, where you have these private bus fleets. You're going to have carpooling; you're going to have these different types of transportation. It's going to be a full ecosystem, but it's not going to be a winner-takes-all. "

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

Entrepreneurship

" I believe in outgrowing a mentor and getting a new one, and I think that you can never be too old to be schooled by your mentor. "

" 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'm from the streets, so I look at investing through a very unique lens. "

" 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 still have a day job, so I don't think I'll be a full-time Shark, but if they ever invited me back, I'd be more than happy to do it. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something. "

" I said, 'Who said African American founders can't build a billion dollar company?' "

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

" My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating. "

" In the future, an artist will be able to perform for the entire world in one date. For the fan, it will be a fully immersive experience - through a pair of glasses or whatever the device. "

" I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "