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" With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Money doesn't make me tick. This definition of success doesn't make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn't make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick. "

" I thought I was going to be a rapper as a kid and used to hop the train down to Jazzy Jeff's studio for, like, six months straight waiting outside of the studio for the big break, and one day we got in the studio and played our demo for Will and Jeff and quickly learned that we weren't that good. "

" It's more important to have the one million diehard fans than to have 54 million people who aren't necessarily fans, or they might have liked one thing you said or one video. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business. "

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

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" 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. "

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" GaGa is a digital baby - that's how they communicate. There cant be any layers between the artists and their fans. "

" The way consumers interact with music is different now. It's not an albums business anymore; it's a singles business again, and the industry has gone through that before. "

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

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" I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant. "

" 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. "

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" I bring in the record label who distributes the music. "

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" The music industry really has to learn a lesson from the tech industry about what scale means at the end of the day and learning how to monetize. "