“I decided that I’m never going to rely on anybody besides myself to be successful.” When Darkroom Records founder/CEO Justin Lubliner was trying to break into the industry in college -- interning at Def Jam Records, offering A&R consulting to Republic Records and running an electronic music blog in his spare time -- seasoned executives tended to give him the same advice. “I would get, ‘You need to focus.
You can’t be amazing at everything,’” says Lubliner as he paces in the backyard of his West Hollywood home. “And I wholeheartedly disagree with that advice.” Lubliner, 29, has since built a reputation for proving long-standing industry beliefs wrong.
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