Guy Oseary — Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5 Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First (#874)
Guy Oseary (@guyoseary) has been spotting talent before anyone else for nearly four decades. Under his leadership at Maverick Records, Maverick has sold over 100 million albums. Guy has managed music stars, including Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and U2, and was named Variety‘s Music Mogul of the Year in 2022. He produced an officer It’s duskwhich became one of the most successful companies in movie history, grossing over $3.5B.
Guy was also an early investor in Vita Coco and founded A-Grade Investments and then started Sound Venturesnow with almost $2 billion in assets under management. In A-Grade, his hits include Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify. Sound Ventures launched with less than $100M and has since had 86 exits and 26 IPOs.
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Music
- A candle box by Candlebox
- Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin
- Confessions on the dance floor by Madonna
- Frozen by Madonna
- Small Rough Pill by Alanis Morissette
- Madonna’s music
- Perfect by Alanis Morissette
- Purple Rain by Prince
- Ray of Light by Madonna
- You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette
Movies and TV
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- It’s dusk
Books
- Where Did I Go Right?: You’re Nobody in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants You Dead by Bernie Brillstein
People and bands
- Jonas Åkerlund
- Sam Altman
- Dario Amodei
- Aphex Twin
- Glen Ballard
- Jim Balsillie
- Marc Benioff
- Bernie Brillstein
- A candle box
- Rosemary Carroll
- Kurt Cobain
- Chris Cunningham
- Sky Dayton
- Freddy DeMann
- Paul Drews
- Daniel Ek
- Effie Epstein
- Bad E
- Shawn Fanning
- It’s a flea
- John Frusciante
- Michael Goldstone
- Bill Gross
- Woody Harrelson
- Hen Gee
- A hole
- Michael Hutchence
- Ice-T
- Billy Idol
- INXS
- Anthony Kiedis
- Neerav Kingsland
- Mike Kirban
- Jack Kornfield
- Josh Kushner
- Ashton Kutcher
- Courtney Love
- Madonna
- Matthew McConaughey
- Mirwais
- Demi Moore
- Mark Morgan
- Alanis Morissette
- Morrissey
- Muse
- Elon Musk
- Nirvana
- William Orbit
- Sean Parker
- The Prince
- The Prodigy
- Fury with the Machine
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Steve Rifkind
- Chris Rock
- Seth Rodsky
- Stéphane Sednaoui
- Mike Shulman
- Chad Smith
- John Somorjai
- U2
- Reese Witherspoon
Companies and Organizations
- Airbnb
- Anthropic
- Brillstein Entertainment Partners
- EarthLink
- Epic Records
- Fred Segal
- Geffen Records (DGC)
- idealab
- Maverick Entertainment Group
- Maverick management
- MTV
- Napster
- OpenAI
- Research In Motion / BlackBerry
- The Rhyme Syndicate
- Salesforce Ventures
- Sound Ventures
- SpaceX
- Spotify
- Suno
- Thrive Capital
- Uber
- Vita Coco Company
- Vitaminwater (Glacéau)
- Wise Guy Prods
Tools and Applications
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)
- Claude (Anthropic)
- Grok (xAI)
- X (Twitter)
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