The Live Issue

Make Wake's Chris Kappy

October 17, 2025

Name a manager not in your company whom you admire.

Shep! When I first got started I didn’t have a mentor, so I would watch Shep’s documentary Supermensch until I got the answer I was looking for. Now, years later, I know Shep and get the chance to ask him questions, and he is the reason I made all my managers equity partners in their acts.

You’re made czar of the concert industry. What’s the first thing you’d change?

Bots and scalpers are gone! They ruin the experience for real fans and inflate prices and demand.