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Robert Kyncl and the price of pressing play
He helped bring Hollywood to Netflix and creators to the centre of YouTube. At Warner Music Group, Robert Kyncl is trying to make the next technological upheaval pay the people who make the songs.
Michael Rapino and the price of being there
A student promoter from Thunder Bay helped turn the concert into a global business. Twenty-one years into running Live Nation, Michael Rapino is confronting the consequences of bringing so much of the show under one roof.
Dolly Parton Built a Life Big Enough to Give Away
She wrote her way out of the Smoky Mountains, kept the rights when it mattered, and turned fame into jobs, stories and more than 300 million books for children.
Scott Robinson Bet on Careers, Not Hits - and Built Dualtone to Last
For 25 years, the Dualtone co-founder has practiced a stubborn kind of patience: sign fewer artists, share the economics clearly, and give good records enough time to find their people.
Shav Garg
Shav Garg is the co-founder and CEO of indify, a New York music-tech company that uses a predictive algorithm to spot emerging artists before they break and connect them with investors, managers and partners on artist-friendly terms. Founded in 2015 in the basement of his family home with two childhood friends from Scarsdale, indify flagged Khalid, Billie Eilish and Post Malone early and has reshaped how independent musicians fund careers while keeping their masters. Garg is also a working singer-songwriter who records as prettyboyshav.