Jimmy Iovine: Harness fear to drive innovation, part 1
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
With guest host Angela Ahrendts (Burberry, Apple). To innovate, you need to build an instinct to smash through barriers — especially the ones that terrify you. Music industry legend Jimmy Iovine has done this throughout his career working with legendary artists like John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Dr. Dre, working in innovative tech like Beats Electronics and Apple Music, as well as in his groundbreaking work educating the next generation of creatives.
In part one of this two-part episode, we learn how fear is the tailwind that Jimmy has harnessed to break down barriers and drive creative breakthroughs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
| 0:07.8 | with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time. |
| 0:24.8 | So search for rapid response in your podcast player and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi listeners, it's Reed. |
| 0:35.0 | You're about to hear a special episode of Masters of Scale |
| 0:39.0 | featuring record producer and entrepreneur Jimmy Iveen, |
| 0:42.0 | co-founder of Interscope Records and Beat Electronics and |
| 0:45.0 | former head of Apple Music. |
| 0:47.6 | On today's episode, we're welcoming guest host, Angela Arrance, former senior VP of retail at Apple and former CEO of Burberry. |
| 0:56.1 | But Angela is no stranger to the show. |
| 0:58.8 | You might remember her in the guest seat for our two-part episode back in 2020 or as part of our roundtable |
| 1:04.3 | discussion for our hundredth episode. |
| 1:06.9 | Angela is the perfect host to interview Jimmy Iveen about his legendary career because she |
| 1:11.8 | happens to be a friend of Jimmy's. |
| 1:14.0 | They both joined Apple in the same week of 2014. |
| 1:18.4 | So she'll be your guide through Jimmy's incredible scale story, and in doing so, she'll be unpacking one of her own theories of scale. |
| 1:26.7 | Now on with the show. |
| 1:29.6 | I walk into this studio and it was really dark, really moody, lights were really low and the guy at the |
| 1:40.6 | console turns around and says, |
| 1:44.1 | hello, James. |
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