American - Producer | November 14, 1972 -
I still have a day job, so I don't think I'll be a full-time Shark, but if they ever invited me back, I'd be more than happy to do it.
Troy Carter
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I'm from the streets, so I look at investing through a very unique lens.
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Our bet is on the future of micronetworks.
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Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets.
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We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.
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When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from.
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What's important for that person on the other side of the table, and what's important for the client?
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She was a performance artist calling herself Lady Gaga, who had a European dance-club sound and pop-star aspirations - elements that historically haven't mixed.
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I am inspired by the diversity of the entrepreneurs that come into 'Shark Tank' and the ability of the show to reach all Americans.
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I invest in black-led startups not because of a sense of charity. I make those investments because of the basic principle of supply and demand and the reality that black entrepreneurs typically lack the network to have their deals become bid up and overvalued.
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The only two things that ever came naturally to me are music and investing.
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Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.
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