Empire State of MindEmpire State of Mind

Empire State of Mind

Summer 2012: Published in paperback with new chapters and a foreword by Steve Forbes.

Invest Like A StarInvest Like A Star

Invest Like A Star

Take a lesson from the money managers used by David Letterman, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi.

The $15 Million DJThe $15 Million DJ

The $15 Million DJ

Skrillex and his fellow EDM artists are spinning a new model for the entire music industry.

Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a Forbes senior editor and author of the Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind. He's now writing his second book, Michael Jackson, Inc, for Simon & Schuster. Zack pens The Beat Report at Forbes, where he has worked for the past five years, profiling subjects from Justin Bieber to Jon Bon Jovi. Zack has also written for the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Vibe and McSweeney's; guest-lectured at Yale, Harvard and Georgetown; and appeared as a source for BBC, MTV, E! and CNN. Full bio here.


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The $15 Million DJ
The $15 Million DJ

Skrillex and his fellow EDM artists are spinning a new model for the entire music industry.

Invest Like A Star
Invest Like A Star

Take a lesson from the money managers used by David Letterman, Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi.

Bieber: Venture Capitalist
Bieber: Venture Capitalist

The 18-year-old earned $108 million in the past two years, and he’s plowing it into companies like Spotify.

Jay-Z’s First B-Ball Team
Jay-Z’s First B-Ball Team

Long before the Nets, LeBron James signed up to play for Jay-Z’s Rucker Park dream team.

A Day in Tangier
A Day in Tangier

The Rolling Stones’ favorite city in Morocco has more than a few similarities to the music business.

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Zack has written over 500 articles for Forbes, Forbes Asia and Forbes.com; his stories on music, business, travel and sports have taken him from the back rooms of New York’s Apollo Theater to the rail yards of Omaha to the diamond mines of Sierra Leone--and, most terrifying of all, the bleachers of Fenway Park. Here are some of his subjects, and links to the resulting stories:

50 Cent | Afrika Bambaataa | Alicia Keys | Akon | Ben Horowitz (of Andreessen Horowitz) | Bill Gates (sort of) | Birdman | B.o.B | Bon Jovi | Branson B | Bruno Mars | Chuck Leavell (of The Rolling Stones) | David Archuleta | David Banner | Delta Rae | DJ Pauly D | Dr. Ruth | Ed Sheeran | Electronic Cash Kings | Fab 5 Freddy | Flo Rida | Hip-Hop Cash Kings | The Jacksons | Jay-Z | Justin Bieber | Kevin Liles | L'Arc-En-Ciel | Lil Jon | LL Cool J | Lyor Cohen | Ludacris | Mac Miller | Mark Teixeira | Mr. T | Music's 30 Under 30 | Nas | Natasha Bedingfield | Noel Lee (of Monster Cable) | Pharrell Williams | Red Dillard | Richard Branson | Russell Simmons | Scooter Braun | Sean Paul | Skrillex | Slash | Steve Stoute | Steve Wozniak | Swizz Beatz | T.I. | Timbaland | Wale | Wiz Khalifa

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