Cameron Strang (Warner Bros. Records), Nate Ruess (fun.) - The Music Industry Unplugged

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Stanford Professor Tina Seelig discusses the creative process and music industry dynamics with Nate Ruess, lead singer of the band fun., and Cameron Strang, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records and Warner/Chappell Music. As a kick-off to Seelig's Stanford Online course, Creativity: Music to my Ears, the conversation explores issues of artist development, evolving business models and the shape and future of the music industry.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.3	Today we have two very special guests.
0:21.6	They're here to help us kick off a very exciting project.
0:25.6	This spring, STVP, is offering a free online course called Creativity, Music to My Ears.
0:34.6	This is a six-week crash course on creativity,
0:38.8	and all the assignments have something to do with music.
0:42.5	Now, no musical experience is required,
0:45.1	just an interest in exploring how music fits into our lives.
0:49.1	To learn more, I've got all of you to go to online.
0:52.3	.standford.edu.
0:59.6	So we're delighted to collaborate with Warner Music Group on this really exciting project. And to kick it off, today we have speakers Cameron Strang and, who is the chairman and CEO of Warner Brothers Records, and Nate Rouse, the acclaimed singer, songwriter, and
1:12.9	Grammy Award-winning lead singer of fun.
1:16.4	So let's give it up for Cameron and Nate.
1:22.1	This is so exciting.
1:27.8	I don't think we've ever had a rock star in the room before.
1:30.3	So we are really, we have lots of rock star entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
1:34.3	But this is exciting.
1:35.3	So is this your first time at Stanford?
1:37.3	Yeah, you still don't have a rock star.
1:39.3	No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:40.3	I think we'll, yeah.
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