Hello everybody and welcome to the compound. Thank you so much for joining us this evening.

It's Monday night and you know if we schedule something for Monday night, we're usually

bringing on somebody special tonight. I am so excited to introduce you guys to somebody

who I have admired from afar for a long time and I'm actually a shareholder of his. Michael

Rapinoe who is the president and CEO of Live Nation and probably one of the most influential

people in music. Is that a stretch or do you think you are? How would you phrase it?

You know live is pretty important to the artist. I think as we say it's 90% of their revenue

we spend about six billion dollars at midnight so I think live is a pretty good part in

a stretch. You're going to own that. You're pretty influential guy. I want to give people

your backstory because it's amazing and I know it second hand from Brooke and I've read

a bunch about you but I want to hear it in your own words because I want people to understand

the vision behind what you started where you came from and then we're going to talk

about Live Nation as it stands today which 20 billion dollar publicly traded company, absolute

giant in the music biz. Where did it all come from and where did you come from?

The condensed story is I grew up in a small town. Thunder Bay Canada went to university

and at Lake Ed University ranked very high in the social calendar in Canada, spear drinking

capital. So I started book and shows in the college and I did a great show with Jeff

Healy, Canadian artist and some local promoters loved the business. At the time in Canada there

was a rolling stone steel wheels tour some other promoters were working and I just loved

the idea of being the promoter sitting backstage putting this show on and I had one of my mentors

Robert Peters and I sat in a bar in Thunder Bay and on a napkin said I want to build the

largest live entertainment company in the world. I just saw how special it was. Now I

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