Lessons - From Paper Boy to Music Industry Mogul | Benny Pough, CEO of Def Jam

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.6 • 326 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstoryIn this episode of "Success Story: Lessons," we explore lessons in music entertainment with Benny Pough, an influential record label executive with over 30 years shaping pop culture.Developing Superstars: We discuss Benny's work with iconic artists like Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West in delivering major radio hits.Guiding Culture: Benny shares perspectives on being instrumental in defining music culture for over three decades.Label Leadership: We examine Benny's label executive experience at Def Jam, Columbia Records and other industry leaders.Assembling Teams: Benny offers insights on surrounding yourself with great creative talent and motivating your staff. ➡️ Show Linkshttps://successstorypodcast.comYouTube: https://youtu.be/Ku7juCuUaKsApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/success-story-with-scott-d-clary/id1484783544Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ALLa98kK5sTVRkTsBJkYqhttps://www.instagram.com/bennypough ➡️ Watch the Podcast On Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/c/scottdclary

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0:00.0	Welcome to Lessons episodes of Success Story, part of the HubSpot Podcast Network.
0:14.4	These Lessons Episodes will be shorter conversations with past guests,
0:19.1	valued members of the Success Story community, and myself. they'll be focused on teaching you
0:24.8	actionable insightful takeaways that you can use to upskill your personal and
0:29.6	professional life. Paper boy Boy to CEO to president.
0:35.0	Like, actually that's multi-stage because it was not even just Paper Boy.
0:39.6	It was like Paper Boy to intern, then intern to CEO.
0:42.3	So why start as Paper Boy and then how do you do Paper Boy to Intern
0:45.0	and then we'll go from there.
0:46.0	Paper Boy was my first job
0:49.0	and it actually came out of a very unconditional method.
0:53.7	We used to travel to South Carolina every summer up until I was 11.
1:00.5	My father went in school then, he would take us to visit our grandparents on a farm in
1:06.3	Orangeburg, South Carolina. So school ended on a Monday. We left that Friday
1:10.4	at school and ended on Friday. We left Friday night and we dropped 12 and a half 13 hours. Friday at
1:13.6	school and ended on Friday night and we dropped 12 and a half 13 hours to get to South
1:16.2	Carolina for the summer. I realized I was definitely not a southern kind of guy. I was more of a metropolitan kid and it didn't
1:28.6	didn't quite fit for me, right? But I enjoyed the experience in all the lessons that I learned, but when I got 11,
1:35.8	I was like, I don't want to do this no more. And I'd actually obtained a paper route. So I had a conversation
1:42.4	in negotiation with my dad if if I leave my
1:46.3	paper out then I'm going to lose that opportunity and he realized that at that point the opportunity did mean something to me and that was the
1:56.8	genesis of my true work career and in doing what I learned from doing that at 11 was managing up, managing down, right?
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