When I started Milk! Records, it was a pretty non-profit making venture.
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I started my own record label.
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.
My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.
At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.
I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.
I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.