Lawrence (Larry) Colbert

🇺🇸 A moment for patriots. A symbol of freedom. As this bald eagle authoritatively flies to the U.S. National Anthem, as a U.S. military veteran, I wish you a Happy 250th Birthday America. @CeoLawrence

Everyone thought Messi went to Miami to retire. Saudi Arabia offered him over $400 million. He chose Miami instead. Here's why that was the smartest business decision in soccer history. His official MLS salary is $20 million. But his total earnings are $70 to 80 million per year, confirmed by Inter Miami's own owner. The difference comes from a revenue share on every Apple TV MLS subscription sold worldwide and a cut of every Adidas jersey with his name on it. He also holds an equity stake in Inter Miami that converts to full ownership after retirement. No buy in required. The result? Inter Miami is now the most valuable franchise in MLS history at $1.45 billion, up 22% in a single year. The club generates $250 million in annual revenue. More than half of all NFL teams. Career earnings on the field is $1.6 billion. Net worth today, $850 million and climbing. With the World Cup being held in America at the moment, Messi's brand is becoming even bigger. He didn't come to Miami to retire. He came to own it. Was this the smartest business decision in soccer history?

This is Jimmy lovine. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1953. Grew up in Red Hook, a neighborhood where nobody talked about the music industry because nobody knew anyone in it. He dropped out of college and got a job sweeping floors at a recording studio in Manhattan. He swept until someone let him touch the equipment. He touched the equipment until someone let him engineer a session. He engineered sessions until he was producing records for John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Petty. He founded Interscope Records in Los Angeles in 1990, Signed Dr. Dre, Eminem, Tupac, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt. Every act was a bet that the rest of the industry wouldn't make. Interscope became the most important record label of the 1990s. Then music went digital. Revenue collapsed. Every executive in the industry panicked. lovine called Dr. Dre and said - people are listening to music on terrible laptop speakers and cheap earbuds. Nobody's selling sound quality as a fashion statement. They launched Beats by Dre in 2008. The headphones weren't the most technically advanced on the market. Audiophiles hated them. But every NBA player walking through an airport, every rapper in a music video, every college kid on every campus in America was wearing them. lovine didn't sell headphones. He sold what it looked like to wear them. Apple bought Beats for three billion dollars in 2014. A kid who swept floors in a Manhattan studio built two separate empires by understanding the same thing twice people don't buy the product. They buy what the product says about them.

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If you had to choose a side, which team are you on, Old Money or New Money? No right or wrong answer but your, choice probably says a lot about your legacy.