#391 Jimmy Iovine

#391 吉米·艾欧文

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2025-06-13

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You grow up in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn. You drop out of college. Your dad is your best friend but you don’t want to work the docks like him. You’re determined to “do something special.” You get a job sweeping the floor at recording studio. You get fired—twice. You’ll do anything to work in the music business, including working on Easter Sunday. That’s how you meet John Lennon. This is the day your life begins. You focus on being of service. You stay in the room and in the saddle. Bruce Springsteen teaches you what work ethic really means. You work with Tom Petty, Bono, Patti Smith, Stevie Nicks, and countless others. You’ll produce hundreds of songs. You get restless, start a family, and start a record company. You get advice from David Geffen. You figure out your edge is producing the producers. You work with the absolute best, hand them the keys, and tell them to drive. You’re a scrapper, you’re persistent, you use fear as a tailwind, you keep the main thing the main thing, you work all the time, you put 100% into whatever is in front of you. You’re described as fiercely competitive, insanely driven, and brilliant. You can never turn it off and you don’t understand why everyone else isn’t like that too. You start multiple companies, make billions of dollars, and tell the best stories when you go on podcasts after you retire. You are Jimmy Iovine.  This episode is what I learned from rewatching the documentary The Defiant Ones and listening to these excellent interviews with Jimmy Iovine.  ----- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save time and money. ----- Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book
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  • Jimmy Iovine spent his career working with the very best people he can.

  • People like John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Bono, Dr. Dre, Trent Reznor, Eminem.

  • And Jimmy knew, just like Steve Jobs knew, just like Jeff Bezos knew, that you always bet on talent.

  • In fact, Steve Jobs said that you must find the extraordinary people.

  • That a small group of A-plus players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

  • And Jeff Bezos set the tone from his very first shareholder letter when he said that... setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been and will continue to be the single most important element of Amazon's success.

  • You must build a team that pursues the A-plus players.

  • That is exactly what Jimmy Iovine did, and that is exactly what Ramp did.

  • Ramp is the presenting sponsor of this podcast, and Ramp has the most talented technical team in their industry.

  • Becoming an engineer at Ramp is nearly impossible.

  • In the last 12 months, they have hired only 0.23% of the people that have applied.

  • This means that when you use ramp, you now have top tier technical talent and some of the best AI engineers working on your behalf 24 seven to automate and improve all of your business's financial operations.

  • And they do this on a single platform.

  • Ramp gives your business easy to use corporate credit cards for your entire team, automated expense reporting and cost control.

  • The longer you use RAMP, the more efficient your company becomes.

  • What kind of products can a team of A plus players build?

  • A product that creates so much value for their customers that the customers never leave.

  • RAMP is an example of that.

  • Last year, 12,059 businesses signed up for RAMP and only eight of the 12,059 businesses decided RAMP wasn't for them.

  • I run my business on RAMP and so do most of the other top founders and CEOs I know.