In Rolling Stone’s new series At Work, we explore what the music industry’s leaders actually do. Up first: John Janick, CEO of interscope records
Starting at the very beginning: What time do you get up in the morning, and what’s the first thing you do?
There’s so much new music these days. How do you keep up with it? Where do you go to discover things on your own time? The best advice I got was to be patient. I was always running my own company, and I felt constantly like we always had to move quickly and couldn’t let things sit for a minute. I’m still that way — I think being entrepreneurial is important — but I learned how to also think about the bigger picture. I’ve been at Interscope now for seven and a half years.
But for younger artists, artists who are the hottest thing everybody wants to sign or whatever, sometimes I also have to sit with them and tell them, “You have to want to be at this company.” It’s about getting to know each other and having that relationship where if things are great, then good, we did it together — and if things aren’t great, we have to be a team and figure it out rather than just pointing the finger at somebody.
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