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Hi, everybody, and welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nicola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian Soin Wealth Fund.

And today, I'm in really good company with Robert Kinsel, the CEO of Warner Music Group, one of the world-largest record labels.

Now, they have incredible artists, including my favorite co-play, Ed Sharon, Dua Lippa,

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 your beginning.

You were born in 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 the way it shaped me was interesting.

My parents, my mom was a teacher, my dad was a doctor, you know, in a socialist, communist

society, not earning much.

But the values they instilled in my sister and I actually apply in the capitalist world in the United States.

For instance, to always value education because education is something nobody can take away from

you. When you go through something like nationalization in Czechoslovakia, people are used to losing their

possessions, but you cannot lose your education.

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