.@​guyoseary says competing against Jimmy Iovine's Interscope Records forced him to develop an "act-quick intuition" for spotting talent. "When we started Madonna's record label, it was just four of us. No one knew what to make of it. And Jimmy was on fire. I was always thinking, 'If I don't act quickly, he's just going to pay them more and get them.'" "My biggest successes were always the things no one else wanted. For example, Alanis Morissette. Every single label passed. She came in, played me one song, and within 30 seconds I was like, 'I'm in.'" "I developed that act-quick intuition. It really just came from the fact that I had to. Otherwise, someone else would figure it out, overpay, and then I couldn't do the deal." ▻