He purchased pricey dwellings around the world and stocked them with hundreds of pairs of shoes he’d never wear. “I want a billion dollars after tax.” 2 The stocky, baldheaded dynamo once boasted a butler, a personal chef, and a glass-roofed limo. “I am trying to take over the whole world,” Dash declared in 2003. 1ĭuring that time, Jay-Z’s erstwhile business partner lived like a modern Louis XIV and sported an attitude to match. Just as Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, one could say that Jay-Z left the Damon Dash school of business to start his own ventures-but not before building an unparalleled commercial hip-hop empire encompassing music, film, liquor, and a clothing company that grew from a few sewing machines into a giant that produced $700 million in annual revenues.
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