From The Globe and Mail:

Karl Moore: This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, talking management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am talking with Andy Nulman, who was the CEO of the Just for Laughs [comedy] festivals and currently [president] of Airborne [Mobile]. Andy is a McGill graduate. We are here at McGill for homecoming, so were delighted to shoot this before a couple hundred of McGill alumni who made it back to campus on this beautiful autumn day. Good afternoon, Andy.

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AN: Well, the mind of an entrepreneur is the mind of madness because what you are doing is that you are going against the grain. Everybody is telling you that you can’t do it. I have to tell you that it was the same thing for Airborne as it was for Just for Laughs.

When we started, people thought that we were crazy. Never mind my family but even our investors thought this. I have a great story to tell you about Airborne investors. When we started with Gilbert Rozon, who was, he was the original founder of Just for Laughs, I came along to help him co-found the English side. When we started out, nobody believed in us. Nobody! We went to the States and I will never forget this. We were excited to get a meeting, and the great William Morris of the huge talent agency gave us a meeting, and we were so excited that they actually let us meet them – and they wouldn’t take us into their offices. They came out and met us in the lobby. We sat in the lobby pitching for our Just for Laughs festival.

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Read the full interview at The Globe and Mail…

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