Recode Staff

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“I think [young] people are waking up to saying, ‘Okay, we need to have some rules in this new world.’ And then they look to the Congress and they said, ‘Wow, those are the folks who are going to be writing these rules?’”

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“I think as Americans we’re raised to believe that hard work and a good idea will lead to success and riches, and that’s simply not true.”

As a record exec, Cohen used to be a bit anti-YouTube. Now he’s soaking in it.