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Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

23 Jan 2022 Acquired Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version)

“I don't know if it's 20 employees, 15 employees, or something like that, but it's called 13 Management.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
23 Jan 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…This is the CEO of Spotify. Obviously, he gets involved here. By the way, when he says her team, there's an organization that's pretty big. I don't know if it's 20 employees, 15 employees, or something like that, but it's called 13 Management. It's her whole team. There are other entities associated with it—one for merchandise, one for the fan club. There are all these real businesses that are surrounding Taylor Swift, the artist, and there are a lot of people that work on those. We're going to come back a little later to talk about why she changed her mind on streaming and what streaming can do for her now, but there's one more thing in this chapter.…

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