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Kevin Liles loves to give advice to young African Americans hoping to get into business. Starting as an unpaid intern at Def Jam, he worked his way up to president. Now an executive vice president at Warner Music, Liles, 37, recently published an inspirational book called Make It Happen. TIME's Dorinda Elliott talked with him about the race factor in business and playing the card game Guts with Jay-Z--but only after a barber gave Liles a trim in the Atlantic Records office...
...done without the Harvard degree, without the friend of a friend. I don't want to be labeled as a black executive. No. I'm a great executive, and I run a great division. I'm not the executive vice president of the black division of Warner Music. Stan O'Neill does not run the black division of Merrill Lynch...
What was it like for you, coming from Def Jam, which was a mostly black environment, moving into Warner, the big U.S. corporation...
...work with Yahoo!, Google, AOL, Time Warner and Comcast. [Younger] consumers are very driven by the media functionality that will be delivered to those devices. With Apple, we worked hard to figure out how to integrate more closely into their technology. We have looked at partnering with them in other ways too, and we have a good relationship. So there are opportunities there...
...Warner Independent Pictures