Scott Samuel "Scooter" Braun (born June 18, 1981) is an American talent manager, producer, writer and entrepreneur. Founder of entertainment and media company SB Projects, Braun represents Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Martin Garrix, Psy, Carly Rae Jepsen, Dan Shay, and Tori Kelly among others. Braun is also co-founder of the comic movie studio, Mythos Studios, with Hollywood producer David Maisel.
Braun is named for the Time 100 Time Time list of the "world's most influential people" by 2013. In 2018 Braun co-hosted March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration for tight weapons laws that USA Today measured as the biggest single- day protest in Washington, DC history.
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Braun was born in New York City to Conservative Jewish parents, Ervin and Susan (nÃÆ' Â © e Schlussel) Braun. Ervin's parents "just escaped" the Holocaust, and stayed in Hungary until 1956. Shortly before the Soviet Union intervened to suppress the Hungarian Revolution, they fled to the United States. Ervin grew up in Queens, and became a dentist; Susan Schlussel Braun is an orthodontist. After the couple married, they settled in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Braun has four brothers: Liza, Cornelio, Sam, and Adam. Adam Braun is the founder of Pencils of Promise, a charitable organization that focuses on developing schools in developing countries.
Braun attended Greenwich High School and was elected as the head of the class. He played basketball from the age of 13 to 18 at Amateur Athletic Union with Greenwich Flame, founded by his father, Ervin. For the All-Star tournament, they recruited Sam Manhanga and Cornelio Guibunda, a former member of the Mozambican youth national team, who had no team at the time because of the athletic basketball program that had gone. After hearing their story, Ervin Braun invited them to live with his family in Greenwich. They became a star on the Greenwich High basketball team despite being criticized by fans. This experience greatly affected Braun. While Greenwich High School Braun entered a video-documentary contest for National History Day with a 10-minute cut titled The Hungarian Conflict of Jews in Hungary before, during, and after the Holocaust. The film won regional and state competitions and then ranked third overall. A Braun family member sent the film to the office of director Steven Spielberg, who, in turn, submitted Braun's video to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Braun says Spielberg's affirmations are one of the most inspiring moments in his life.
Braun went to college at Emory University in Atlanta where he also played college basketball in his second year. After Dupri asked him to become head of marketing on his label, So So Def, Braun reportedly dropped out of college without a degree.
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Careers
Braun began his career by organizing a party while studying at Emory University in Atlanta. In 2002, Braun was hired to plan a party thereafter in each of the five cities on the Anger Management Tour, featuring Ludacris and Eminem. The launch goes to hip-hop world led Braun to producer Jermaine Dupri, director of So So Def Records. Braun was 19 when Dupri asked him to join So So Def in marketing position, and 20 when Dupri named him So So Def's executive director for marketing. Still in his second year at Emory, Braun works in So So Def and operates his promotional business. Some of the larger events include a party for the 2003 NBA All-Star Game and after-parties at Britney Spears' Onyx Hotel Tour. Braun departs So So Def to start a personal venture including business marketing, music labels, and artist representations. He started his own marketing business by bridging a $ 12 million campaign deal between Ludacris and Pontiac; the music video for Ludacris Two Miles per Hour will feature Pontiac while the Pontiac ad will feature the song.
Braun first met Justin Bieber when he saw a 12-year-old video of Bieber on YouTube, performed by Ne-Yo. Braun contacted Bieber's mother, Pattie Mallette, who agreed to take her son to Atlanta for an unlicensed probation. Eventually, Braun convinced them to move permanently from Canada to the United States. After further online success, Braun offers Bieber to two successful artists, Usher and Justin Timberlake; both expressed interest. Finally mentor Usher, music executive L. A. Reid, signed Bieber for a deal with Island Def Jam. Under the agreement, the label will take a cut of all revenues generated by Bieber, including ticket sales and merchandising. The agreement also provides a fifty-fifty share distribution between the label and the new production company formed by Braun and Usher, Raymond-Braun Media Group (RBMG).
Movies and TV
Braun produced Never Say Never, a documentary about pop star Justin Bieber that MTV reported in 2011 as "one of the highest grossing music documentaries in the history of domestic box office." The film budget is $ 13 million and earns $ 100 million more worldwide. Braun is also an executive producer for the Scorpion television series on CBS. His first attempt at the television show, Scorpion filmed four seasons and topped 26 million viewers at the premiere in 2014.
SB Project
In 2007 Braun founded SB Projects, a full-service entertainment and marketing company covering businesses including School Records, SB Management, and Sheba Publishing, a songwriting company. The group also includes RBMG, a joint venture between Braun and Usher. School Boy Records has a music distribution arrangement with Universal Music Group and later with Republic Records. In early 2013 Ariana Grande was signed for the management of Scooter Braun and by 2016, the Grande, Republic Records label confirms that Braun served as its primary manager addressing all aspects of his career. SB Ventures also handles television campaigns, branding, music licensing deals, and tour sponsors - including Justin Bieber's support Calvin Klein for World Destination Tour 2016-2017.
Ithaca Ventures, Braun's parent company that includes the SB Project, raised $ 120 million in 2010 for venture capital including investments in Uber, Spotify, and Editorialist. Fortune reports that Ithaca Ventures has interests in seven of the country's largest music management companies. In 2018, the media reported that Ithaca would support GoodStory Entertainment, a collaboration between Braun and J.D. entertainment executives. Roth, in acquisitions for non-written events, live events, and documentaries.
Mythos Studios
In 2018, the New York Times reported that Braun had joined David Maisel, founder of Marvel Studios chairman, to form Mythos Studios to produce comic movie franchises in live-action and animated formats.
Awards
Braun appeared on the cover of Billboard in the August 11, 2012 edition of "Forty Under Forty" entitled "Scooter Braun and Other Power Players in the Resurrection". Braun is featured on the Time 100 list for 2013. He also appeared for the second time on the cover of Billboard in the April 20, 2013 issue, alongside Guy Oseary and Troy Carter. In 2016 Scooter won the "Best Talent Manager" award at the 3rd annual "International Music Industry Awards" presented by Shazam at the 12th annual MUSEXPO in Los Angeles. In 2017, Braun appeared on the cover of both of Hitmakers' editions of Variety magazine and the issue of Thanksgiving Success magazine.
In 2018, Braun is honored with Harry Potter's Harry Potter Nobel Prize Memorial for his philanthropic endeavor in 2017.
Philanthropy
Braun remains involved in various charities including the Braun Family Foundation. Many of Braun's artist signs are also involved in various philanthropic initiatives. Braun is famous for supporting Pencils of Promise, founded by his younger brother, Adam Braun. The younger brother was inspired by the experience of asking a child in India what he hoped for; which was answered by a "pencil" boy, prompting Adam Braun to find a Promise Pencil to build a school in a developing country. Braun and Bieber have worked to support the organization. The charity has helped in building more than 200 schools in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Billboard reports that in 2017 Scooter Braun - along with his clients and his company - has given more hope to Make-A-Wish than any other organization in the history of the foundation. Scooter Braun is honored with the Humanitarian Award at the 2016 Billboard Touring Awards for his philanthropic support of the Promise Pencil, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the Fucking Cancer.
In 2017, Billboard magazined called Scooter Braun the "first responder" of the music industry when he organized the charity concert One Love Manchester and Hand in Hand: A Benefit to Teleon Help Hurricanes within a few months of each other. In March 2018, George Clooney, Braun, and his team organized the March for Our Lives, a student-led demonstration for strict weapons laws that took place in Washington, DC. Vox reported that the parade was the largest in the history of the capital since the Vietnam War.
Personal life
In 2013 Braun began dating Canada health activist, philanthropist, and founder of Fuck Cancer, Yael Cohen. The couple married on July 6, 2014 in Whistler, British Columbia. On February 6, 2015 they welcomed their first child, Jagger Joseph Braun, in Los Angeles. They welcome their second child, Levi Magnus Braun, on November 29, 2016.
References
External links
- Scooter Braun on IMDb
- Scooter Braun's interview with CBS 'Gayle King
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