Zack O'Malley Greenburg: From Wu Tang Clan to Michael Jackson
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2014
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Zack is the Author of Michael Jackson, Inc, released by Simon and Schuster in June. He is also a senior editor at Forbes, where he covers the business of music and has investigated topics from Justin Bieber's career as a venture capitalist to the Wu Tang Clan's secret album.
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| 0:54.8 | Zach O'Malley-Greenberg. Zach, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 1:00.7 | I am prepared to ignite like a volcano. |
| 1:03.5 | Yes, Zach is the author of Michael Jackson Inc. released by Simon and Schuster. |
| 1:09.6 | He is also a senior editor at Forbes where he covers the business of music and has investigated |
| 1:15.5 | topics from Justin Bieber's career as a venture capitalist to the Wu-Tain Clans secret album. |
| 1:22.0 | Zach, I've given Fire Nation a little background about you, but expand a little bit about your |
| 1:26.4 | business, your personal life, and then we'll dive on in. Sounds like a plan. |
| 1:31.1 | So pretty much my job at Forbes is to cover the business of music and entertainment. |
| 1:36.4 | That was kind of a roundabout path, but basically ended up focusing on |
| 1:43.0 | hip-hop and some other musical genres after a few years of covering mutual funds and personal |
| 1:49.8 | finance and stuff like that. And then on the side I write books. So my first book was called |
| 1:54.7 | Empire State of Mind. It's a business-focused biography of Jay-Z and the most recent one was |
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