Kobalt At 20: Execs on Two Decades of Disruption and the Future of Publishing - NewsBreak

Seated in their newly reopened West Hollywood office under a portrait of rock disruptor Frank Zappa, Kobalt Music Group founder/chairman Willard Ahdritz and CEO Laurent Hubert can't help but laugh at the irony. The two are looking back on two decades of disruption of their own — a period when, to hear them tell it, Kobalt was the only company speaking about the merits of the digital revolution within the music business, as well as the only one actively pushing for it.