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By Anthony DeCurtis. David Geffen once asked Ahmet Ertegun about the key to being successful in the music industry. “If you’re lucky, you bump into a genius,” the founder of Atlantic Records and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame explained, “and a genius will make you rich in the music business.”.
David Geffen was born in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham and Batya Geffen. He has an older brother Mitchell. Although his grades in school were generally poor, he credits his shopkeeper mother with teaching him his business skills, especially since his father died when Geffen was 16.
Overview. Geffen founded Geffen Records, the music label he sold to MCA for $550 million in 1990. He also is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks SKG, a movie studio he created with Jeffrey...
