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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Take Whitney Houston’s 1987 smash “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” which was bought in late 2022 as part of a $50 million to $100 million deal by Primary Wave, a music publishing company backed by two private equity firms. The song was recently rebooted into our collective hippocampus via a movie about the singer, titled, naturally, “I... See more
Marc Hogan • Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem
No one ever tells you that...
1. You are responsible for your own happiness. Not your wife, not your parents, not your friends. Growing up is realizing this.
2. Life in a nutshell: when you're 18, your situation reflects your upbringing; when you’re 38, your situation reflects your decisions; when you’re 68, your situation reflects the impact you... See more
GREG ISENBERGx.comFor example, if you’re a major songwriter who’s hiring a manager to help you become a recording artist, the manager might get 15% of your earnings as an artist, but only 10% (or even 7.5%, 5%, or 0%) of your songwriting monies.
Donald S. Passman • All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition
personally emailing all corporations to let them know I've updated my terms of service
Ben Niespodzianyx.comthe optimal startup team in 2025 is 5 people.
1 engineer. 1 designer. 1 product lead. 1 growth lead. 1 ops person
that's it.
the engineer starts the day in Cursor. they paste in a product idea, and Cursor instantly generates the scaffolding. they edit inline with AI, refactor
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