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I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland

How I Built This with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

Do You Have to Be a Crook to Run a Record Label?

In order to be successful, do you kind of have to be an SOB? Yes or no. The reality is, you know, everybody wants more later on. Do you think Jay Boberg would have accepted $100 a week salary three years in and after we've had a number one record where the go goes? Well, no. So that's why a lot of labels never make it ... they imagine that things are going to be like it was in the early days.

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