Why make the leap?
It’s a question that springs up now and again in this business, whenever successful and/or renowned entrepreneurs jump into a job at a major music company.
Universal Music Group, of course, has a rich history in this field. (Witness, for example, the wildly successful history of UMG’s Interscope Records – run first by indie-entrepreneur-turned-major-label-guy Jimmy Iovine, and then by, well, indie-entrepreneur-turned-major-label-guy John Janick.)
Over the past year, this story arc has played out yet again at UMG, but…
