Company · Music · founded 1959
Motown
American record label founded by Berry Gordy as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959 and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in 1960. It is now owned by Universal Music Group.
Of the 1 person here linked to Motown, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Motown
Founder Past
Role
Founder (as Tamla Records, January 1959), 1959–1988
Also at
Source
· high confidence. Wikipedia says he sold his interests in Motown Records to MCA and Boston Ventures on June 28, 1988.
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Berry Gordy
Founder, Motown Records
working-class, entrepreneurial · some · no college