Record Companies
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
Acquired 
Masters of Scale 
Capital Allocators 
David Senra
5 statements about Record Companies, every show
Stoute: Labels Avoided Spotify Fan Data Deals to Preserve Power
“The record companies, I believe, never negotiated that when they had that leverage, because they didn't even want to have to share that information with the artist.”
Ovitz: Record label CEOs rejected 1990s warning that physical media would vanish
“I told three of the five record companies I consulted for that all their packaged goods were going to disappear, because Nathan Mirvold, who is the smartest guy, was employee number three at Microsoft, was CTO, said to me in a meeting one day in the nineties, …”
Ek: German labels hacking Spotify to upload audiobooks prompted podcast expansion
“What happened in Germany is all the record companies started uploading audiobooks to the service. So they started hacking the system for all these other things, and when they ran out of that, they actually started uploading podcasts.”
Iovine: Music streaming services have no margins because they lack content ownership
“So now you have two companies with two different agendas and you don't have an audience and the streaming services don't own the content. So they're not making any money. There's no margins in it. So it's a goddamn mess in my opinion.”