Make it epic, w/will.i.am
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
What can entrepreneurs learn from a genre-crossing, multi-platinum musician? How to take a big opportunity — and leverage it into something epic. From his earliest days as a founding member of the Black Eyed Peas, will.i.am learned from mentors how to not only identify big opportunities but compound them. From the Super Bowl to the first iTunes commercial; from the founding of Beats and his tech company i.am+ to a song beamed back from Mars, his ability to bring stakeholders together to leverage partnerships and compound possibilities will inspire founders at any stage of scale. Cameo appearance: Jeremy Siegel (urban designer, Bjarke Ingels Group).
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| 0:21.8 | And our number, when we do boom boom, pal, I'd be rocking them beats. |
| 0:28.4 | I had everybody in the light-up suits, form an arrow and lean forward so they could point to |
| 0:35.4 | the beat. |
| 0:36.9 | I was like, look, I have an arrow that's pointing to what you need to pay attention to. |
| 0:42.5 | That's Will I Am. |
| 0:44.4 | You know, Will I Am, frontman of the black-eyed peas, among other distinctions. |
| 0:50.5 | He's describing his Super Bowl halftime show from 2011. |
| 0:55.1 | But to understand the triumph in his voice, |
| 0:58.3 | I think we need to start the story a bit earlier. |
| 1:02.2 | We were rehearsing for the Super Bowl. |
| 1:07.6 | While we were on tour in Brazil, |
| 1:10.6 | while I was writing a new album, right when me and Mark Benioff's relationship began. |
| 1:22.0 | Mark Benioff is the co-CEO of Salesforce. |
| 1:25.8 | Will had partnered with him to promote their new app |
| 1:28.3 | called Chatter, |
| 1:29.5 | and he saw an opportunity. |
| 1:32.2 | And I said, |
| 1:32.7 | Hey, Mark, why don't you do a Super Bowl ad? |
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