Quotes by Troy Carter

You go into the venues, and there's a huge drop-off rate in the merch lines. People don't want to miss parts of the concert.

I'd like to open doors for underserved communities and minorities in entrepreneurship.

Lady Gaga is phenomenal. From the first day I met her, she was lightning in a bottle.

The problem with when you look at eBay is that you can put a pair of Jordans next to a frying pan. It's an altogether different experience compared to having some editorial around it and well-curated experience.

The way consumers interact with music is different now. It's not an albums business anymore; it's a singles business again, and the industry has gone through that before.

Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.

I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant.

The music industry really has to learn a lesson from the tech industry about what scale means at the end of the day and learning how to monetize.

The more people are listening to music and experiencing it, the more value for both the music companies and the artist, especially when their financial model is built around that . With the music industry, everybody is starting to understand that doesn't begin with a piece of music.

I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it.