Guy Oseary

Music manager, investor, and co-founder of Community. Oseary rose from Maverick Records to manage artists including Madonna and U2, and has invested through A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures; he has also publicly addressed AI music, artist consent, and training-rights issues.

A Total Loss Taught Guy Oseary to Build Survivable Bets

Guy Oseary argues that his first major investment taught him to separate identifying a promising opportunity from structuring a bet that can withstand bad timing. After putting virtually all his capital into Idealab before the dot-com crash, he returned to investing through Vita Coco, where he paired a conviction about coconut water’s emerging audience with a role for his own network in expanding the brand’s reach.

Tim FerrissJul 21, 20264 min read