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Scooter Braun
Scott Samuel "Scooter" Braun is an American businessman, investor, former talent manager, and record executive. He is credited with having discovered and managed Canadian singer Justin Bieber in 2008 and signed American singer Ariana Grande to his management agency in 2012, whose success led to the establishment of Braun's RBMG Records and later, SB Projects, which were both later acquired by Hybe…
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business · American businessman (born 1981) · talent agent · businessperson · talent manager · actor · also Scooter Braun, Scott Samuel Braun, Braun
Born 18 June 1981 · Q1189670
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2026· 3 entries
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2025· 1 entry
Braun partnered Hybe America with Jermaine Dupri's So So Def to launch new music and cooperate on distribution and marketing
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2024· 2 entries
Braun was honored by the Anti-Defamation League for his role in the Nova Festival Exhibit in New York City
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Retired from artist management to focus on the HYBE-America CEO role
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2023· 2 entries
Hybe acquired Quality Control Music for $300 million, with Kevin "Coach K" Lee and Pierre "P" Thomas maintaining control of the label under Braun
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Braun joined the board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation
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2022· 1 entry
Braun met with BTS and US President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss the recent rise in anti-Asian hate crimes
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2021· 3 entries
Braun was chief executive officer (CEO) of Hybe America, the North American subsidiary of South Korean entertainment company Hybe Corporation until he moved to a board member and senior advisor role in 2025
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Braun filed for divorce in July 2021, which was finalized in September 2022.
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Braun was named Variety magazine's "Music Mogul of the Year
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2020· 2 entries
Fortune named him to its "40 Under 40" list in media and entertainment
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Ithaca Holdings sold the Taylor Swift master recordings to Shamrock Holdings for a reported $405 million, earning Ithaca $265 million
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2019· 2 entries
Ithaca acquired Big Machine Label Group in a purchase that included the masters of the first six albums of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift
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Hosted a fundraiser for the Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign
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2018· 3 entries
The New York Times reported that Braun had joined David Maisel, founding chairman of Marvel Studios, to form Mythos Studios to produce comic book movie franchises in live-action and animated formats
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Variety reported that FX had ordered a pilot of Dave, a comedy executive-produced by Braun that included actor Kevin Hart and rapper Lil Dicky
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Braun received the Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic efforts in 2017
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2017· 2 entries
Appeared on the cover of Variety magazine's Hitmakers
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Braun was an organizer of Hand in Hand, a telethon which raised $55 million for relief efforts related to Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma
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2015· 1 entry
Another son in 2016, and a daughter in 2018
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2014· 1 entry
In Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, at Cohen's parents' house
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2013· 2 entries
Braun was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world
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Braun began dating Yael Cohen
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2012· 1 entry
Braun was awarded an ACLU Bill of Rights award
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2011· 1 entry
As "one of the highest grossing music documentaries in domestic box-office history"
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2008· 2 entries
And signed American singer Ariana Grande to his management agency in 2012, whose success led to the establishment of Braun's RBMG Records and later, SB Projects, which were both later acquired by Hybe Corporation
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Braun scouted Bieber, then 13, after accidentally clicking on a YouTube video of Bieber singing
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2007· 1 entry
Braun established SB Projects, an entertainment and marketing company that encompassed ventures including Schoolboy Records, SB Management, and Sheba Publishing, a music publishing firm
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2005· 1 entry
And a few weeks later brokered a $12 million campaign deal between Ludacris and Pontiac
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2002· 1 entry
Braun was hired to plan after-parties in each of the five cities on the Anger Management Tour, which featured Ludacris and Eminem
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1981· 1 entry
Born 1981-06-18.
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