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Founder, engineer, and pioneer Ghazi Shami takes us on a journey from his youth in San Francisco falling in love with the buzzing Bay Area music scene, to taking a tech job in Silicon Valley, to combining those two worlds together to create his wildly successful music distribution company, Empire.

In this episode hear how Ghazi started out as an engineer and opened his own recording studio at the age of 18, found a job in technology and brought new ideas to the music industry, and then put it all together to distribute the debut album of a then relatively unknown artist by the name of Kendrick Lamar.

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Credits

Noah Callahan-Bever

Creator & Host, Idea Generation

Starring: Ghazi

Executive Producer:

Helena Ox

Producer:

Lamonday Baxter

Lead Editor, Creative Director & Sound Designer:

Sarathi Garimella

Producer / Editor:

Sam Anderson