Scooter Braun's Party Promoter Rise
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A story about how Scooter Braun built his entertainment empire, starting from college parties to discovering Justin Bieber.
"Scooter Braun started at Emory University as a sophomore throwing parties. Through this, he met Jermaine Dupree's mom who owned a record label in Atlanta. He started working for the Duprees, bringing college kids to parties as a club promoter and making a cut from Jermaine Dupree's parties.
When he was 22, with less than $100 saved, he found this kid on YouTube who was 7-8 years old playing guitar and singing. Scooter thought 'this kid's gonna be a home run.' He flew the kid and his mom down to Atlanta and said 'I want to manage you.' The kid said 'I don't have a career' and Scooter replied 'You're gonna be a superstar one day.' That kid was Justin Bieber.
He went on to manage Ariana Grande and others, bought Big Machine Records which owned Taylor Swift's rights for $300 million. His company Ithaca Holdings eventually sold to HYBE (the Korean entertainment company behind BTS) for $1.05 billion. He now holds a 1% stake in HYBE worth $123 million, while Bieber and Ariana Grande each have $14.3 million stakes in the company."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.