Jay Z

“What was clear was Nike wasn't doing lifestyle at that time. They just thought, like, Just Do It was all about athletes and performance, so what I was trying to do was tap into the truth, which was people were wearing sneakers, Not to perform at all. Just so i…”

“I would say Jay has the, has, out of all of them, has the strongest work ethic.”

“Every line Snoop says in the hook is fucking Jay wrote. I was like, this guy's different. He wrote Snoop's parts on that song.”

“What people need to know Is I am not taking anything away from the great writers, Maya Angelou, Shakespeare, you name the writers, nothing. Nas and Jay-Z are in that conversation. They're that good.”

“He's the only person I've ever seen do that.”

“Jay Z. This is what Rick Rubin told me. He doesn't write any of his lyrics. They're about to start. He comes back in tune hits. He does the rap. He's instinctual, but incredible.”

“Jay-Z was one of their first investors.”

“So I come with some sort of gift to them. I did that with Jay-Z as well. I try to find out the thing that they care about on a human and business level that they might not be given And I could provide it.”

“You know, Jay-Z and I have often said that the building the neuro team is what we're most proud of, and here we were having to cut roughly 20% of it, and that was all on us for growing too aggressively and being too optimistic about the market and funding cond…”

“Are you jealous of Jeff Bezos? No, Jeff Bezos is not someone that you compete with, right? Jeff Bezos is often this celebrity world. Right? Jay-Z. That's not someone you compete with, right? The people you compete with are people within your bubble.”

“Andy is the founder of Tidal which was sold to Jay-Z, the music streaming service so he has a lot of experience”

“They gave Jay-Z a contract to do the entertainment, which Jay-Z should not have taken, which is not going to be a popular opinion, ok, but we should have stood strong behind Colin Kaepernick, and he's one of the greatest quarterbacks alive today, still, ok?”

“Prior to Unicast, I was a part of the founding team at Tidal, which you might be familiar with. It was acquired by Jay-Z, the rapper. So the company wasn't started in the U.S. It was started out of Norway, next to Spotify.”

“Yes, Jay-Z Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the investment helped us to open up the additional store but also helped us to get into places like Sephora at the time and then subsequently Macy's.”

“Yes, Jay-Z Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the investment helped us to open up the additional store but also helped us to get into places like Sephora at the time and then subsequently Macy's.”

“She auditioned for me and for Jay-Z. Jay-Z I'd hired as the president of Def Jam. Yeah. We signed her.”

“So, I think Tidal's notion of exclusive content was somewhat doomed from the beginning, and I think the numbers show the product has failed. The social receptivity was really negative. And I think it will it will ultimately completely fail.”