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Splice's Steve Martocci On Changing The Game For Musicians Apr 08, 2020

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Steve Martocci is the founder of music tech platform Splice. Martocci first started in the tech business by co-founding the group-messaging service GroupMe, which sold to Skype in August 2011 for $85 million, when he was just 27. In 2013 he co-founded Splice, a technology platform for music creators that streamlines the process of creating and sharing music. Then in 2014 he co-founded Blade, a private plane service. In total, Martocci’s startups have raised over $100 million.

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Vista Global’s Thomas Flohr on Building a Business During a Global Crisis Apr 01, 2020

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The Swiss financier, Thomas Flohr, started his private jet charter company in 2004, just a few years after 9/11 sent aircraft sales spiraling. It wasn’t the last time world events or market downturns would affect Flohr’s business. The 2008 financial crisis came with plenty of challenges, but as Flohr told me he managed to turn those obstacles into fuel for Vista Jet. And today in these times of a new global crisis around the COVID-19 Flohr still continues to move his company forward.

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Walt Disney Companies Debra O'Connell on Building a Great Culture Mar 25, 2020

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Inspirato's Brent Handler on Spotting Consumer Trends Mar 18, 2020

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In 2002, Brent and his brother Brad launched Exclusive Resorts, and quickly became pioneers in the destination club industry. Then, in 2011 the Handler brothers launched Inspirato, a luxury travel club with an impressive roster of exclusive experiences and bespoke travel itineraries. Now Inspirato offers a ground-breaking subscription model, which lets members pay a flat monthly rate for unlimited bookings at Inspirato’s exclusive luxury properties around the world.

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Pawn Stars Creator and TV Tycoon Brent Montgomery on Being A 10 Year Overnight Success Mar 11, 2020

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They say every “overnight success” takes 10 years, and that’s something reality TV tycoon Brent Montgomery knows all too well. In 2014, Brent sold an 80% stake of his production group Leftfield Entertainment for $360 million—the most lucrative nonfiction television deal ever made in North America. But if you rewind ten years, you’d find Brent producing wedding videos in New York City. He was working 80-100 hour work weeks with minimal pay, hustling to land a ticket into the entertainment business.

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Hollywood Heavyweights Michele Ganeless, Alysia Reiner, and David Alan Basche on the Business of Making a Movie Mar 04, 2020

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A movie is a piece of entertainment. But a movie is also a business. There are budgets, payroll, marketing—you name it. Michelle Ganeless, the former President of Comedy Central, Alysia Reiner, an actress famous for her role on Orange is the New Black, and her husband, the accomplished actor David Alan Basche talk about how making their movie, EGG, was very much like building a business.

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Baked by Melissa's, Melissa Ben-Ishay, on Why Getting Fired Changed Her Life Feb 26, 2020

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Melissa Ben-Ishay is the founder of Baked by Melissa. When she was let go from her job, she had no idea what to do. But her brother suggested she start baking. Melissa wasn’t sure if her love for baking as a real business opportunity or just a distraction. But he encouraged her to nurture her creative instincts, and boy did it pay off. Those little colorful cupcakes ended up in the hands of some influential people, and now Baked by Melissa is arguably the most successful cupcake company in the world.

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BaubleBars Daniella Yacobovsky on How to Fail Your Way to Success Feb 19, 2020

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Daniella Yacobovsky the co founder of BaubleBar the go-to online retailer for on-trend jewelry seemed to understand early on that failures she had in her business were just part of the necessary process needed to eventually find success. She built BaubleBar into a major fashion accessories business by failing her way to success. Figuring out the right answers by making the wrong decisions. Even today when she launches new jewelry products its a continual process of testing, failing, learning and growing.

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Celebrity Chef and Restauranteur Scott Conant on Finding True Happiness In Business Feb 12, 2020

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Celebrity Chef Leah Cohen on Being a Successful Woman in a Male Dominated Industry Feb 05, 2020

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Leah Cohen started in the restaurant business way before the #metoo movement. Many people might know her from her wildly successful New York City restaurant Pig and Cow. Or her brand new restaurant Piggyback. Others possibly know her from her appearance on Season 5 of Top Chef. But most don't realize her success didn't happen overnight. She put in a lot of years working for a variety of chefs and restauranteurs before taking her own leap into entrepreneurship.

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