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Dre is not that kind of an engineer. The cash came from a list of investors including billionaire Len Blavatnik, the owner of Warner Music Group; by the time Beats Music launched, industry insiders believed that streaming had already overtaken MP3s as the dominant music medium.
It placed Iovine and Dre tantalizingly close to completing a trifecta that would allow the service access to an all-you-can-eat music menu. His message: Lee strenuously denies this: Monsters, Inc: L-R Dr.
Photo by John Shearer. As Dre prepared for the launch of his Beats streaming service, his headphone line had gobbled up two-thirds of the hundred-dollars-and-up market, simultaneously dwarfing and lifting brands like Bose and Sennheiser.
A spokesperson for the firm declined to make an executive available for comment. A report by the research firm PrivCo later suggested that Beats was also having a bumpy time—much more than anyone on the outside ever realized—despite its gaudy revenue numbers. Apparently, after taking manufacturing in-house, Beats experienced a cash crunch and teetered just days from bankruptcy before coming up with a nine-figure loan.
The Carlyle investment also gave Beats the funds it needed to keep expanding. That was especially important given the focus on its new streaming service. Inside, superstars from Drake to Pink mingled with label chiefs and talent agency executives at the oversubscribed show. There were no reports of Apple executives in the crowd, but the computer giant was clearly watching.
Says Lee: In , Iovine told Wired that when he and Dre founded Beats, he hoped to someday be acquired by Jobs. He believed that Apple did the deal so that the company could tie the headphones to iPhones and iPads, perhaps replacing the headphone jack on the products with its Lightning connector and producing Beats products exclusively for that type of hardware.
On the other end of the spectrum, Will. A whole new spirit just popped from this one announcement. Best Buyers: L-R Will. As far as Lee is concerned, the Beats deal is one that should be held up as an example for young entrepreneurs—but not in the way Will. Lee arrived at this conclusion several months after the completion of the Apple deal, he says, reflecting on his role in creating Beats.
Going back through the timeline, he fixated on what happened when he negotiated his 5 percent stake in Beats, before HTC bought 51 percent of the company. Lee claims the contract that gave him equity also had a change of control provision that would require Monster to forfeit its intellectual property rights to the headphones and all its dealer lists—an event that he insists the HTC investment triggered. Use to create soft layers or add textures.
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