Warner Music Group CEO: Industry Evolution, Artist Development, and Digital Disruption

Hi everybody and welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nikola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian So and Wealth Fund, and today I'm in really good company with Robert Kinsel, the CEO of Warner Music Group, one of the world's largest record labels. Now, they have incredible artists, including my favourite coplay, Ed Sheron, Dua Lipa, and even the Norwegian Legends, aha! Very good.

Robert, what a pleasure to have you on. Same here. Thank you so much. Now we need to kind of kick off with uh with your beginning. You were born in uh Czechia, and so how does your background shape you as the leader you are today?

So actually, you know, when I was born and grew up, it was Czechoslovakia, the country rebranded three times in my lifetime. It tells you something about change that I'm probably used to. But uh the way it shaped me was interesting. My parents, my mom was a teacher, my dad was a doctor, uh, you know, in a socialist, uh, communist society, uh, not earning much. But the values they instilled in my sister and I actually apply in the capitalist world in the United States.

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