Jarret Myer#Uproxx
{{short description|American media entrepreneur (born 1973)}}
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Jarret Myer (born February 6, 1973) is an American media entrepreneur who co-founded the record label Rawkus Records,{{cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-04-20/news/a-fistful-of-mighta-been/1/ |title=A Fistful of Mighta Been |last=Coates |first=Ta-Nehisi |work=The Village Voice |date=April 20, 2004 |accessdate=October 5, 2010}} the YouTube talent company Big Frame,{{cite news |title=Big Frame Gets $3 Million to Make a Bigger, Better YouTube Network |author=Joshua Cohen |url=http://www.tubefilter.com/2012/06/27/big-frame-youtube-network-funding/ |work=Tubefilter |date=June 27, 2012 |accessdate=20 October 2015}} and the digital media brand Uproxx. Since the sale of Uproxx to Woven Digital in 2014, Myer has served as Woven Digital's general manager of publishing.{{cite news |title=Showbiz Site Uproxx Acquired by Guy-Focused Digital Media Firm Woven |author=Todd Spangler |url=https://variety.com/2014/digital/news/showbiz-site-uproxx-acquired-by-guy-focused-digital-media-firm-woven-1201158843/ |work=Variety |date=April 17, 2014 |accessdate=20 October 2015}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/Research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=262419819&privcapId=262247333&previousCapId=262247333&previousTitle=Uproxx%20Media,%20Inc. |title=Executive Profile:Jarret Myer |work=bloomberg.com |publisher=Bloomberg |accessdate=20 October 2015}}
Rawkus Records
Myer founded independent hip hop label Rawkus Records with partners Brian Brater and James Murdoch in 1996. Myer met his cofounders while attending Horace Mann School.{{cite magazine |title=The Doctor Is In |author=John Seabrook |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/14/the-doctor-is-in |magazine=The New Yorker |accessdate=1 February 2016}} The label's high-volume model of 12-inch releases was based on the strategy of punk rock music labels like SST and Victory. The label became known for producing up-and-coming hip hop artists.{{cite news |title=How We Met: Jarret Myer and Brian Brater |author=Dan Stacey |work=The Independent |date=15 September 2002 }} Myer and Brater scouted and signed all of the label's acts themselves, including Mos Def and Talib Kweli.{{cite journal |title=Bring Da Rawkus |journal=Vibe |pages=64–65 |date=July 1998 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kysEAAAAMBAJ&dq=jarret+myer+the+independent&pg=PP1 |accessdate=January 15, 2011}} The label received financial support first from News Corp and then MCA from 2002 until MCA was absorbed by Interscope Geffen A&M Records in 2004.{{cite magazine |last=Hall |first=Rashaun |date=April 13, 2002 |title=MCA Shifts Its Urban Division In New Direction |magazine=Billboard |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=shAEAAAAMBAJ&dq=jarret+myer+the+independent&pg=PA6 |accessdate=January 15, 2011}}
Myer was named on New York magazine's "35 Under 35" list in 2000 for his work with Rawkus Records.{{cite news |first=Vanessa |last=Grigoriadis |url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/2883/ |title=35 Under 35 |work=New York |date=17 April 2000 |accessdate=30 November 2014}}
Uproxx
Big Frame
Myer founded Big Frame with partners Steve Raymond, Brian Brater and Sarah Evershed in 2011.
References
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External links
- [http://uproxx.com/ Uproxx]
- [http://www.woven.com/index.php Woven Digital website]
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Category:American music industry executives
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Horace Mann School alumni
Category:21st-century American businesspeople
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