{"id":231276,"date":"2025-05-12T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=231276"},"modified":"2025-05-12T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:41:28","slug":"the-importance-of-rejection-and-being-told-thats-impossible-5-things-we-learned-from-elliot-grainges-commencement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/the-importance-of-rejection-and-being-told-thats-impossible-5-things-we-learned-from-elliot-grainges-commencement-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of rejection \u2013 and being told &#8216;that&#8217;s impossible&#8217;: 5 things we learned from Elliot Grainge&#8217;s commencement speech"},"content":{"rendered":"Atlantic Music Group CEO Elliot Grainge offered rare insights during a refreshingly candid commencem<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><h3>Sorry, you have hit your monthly limit of MBW+ articles!<\/h3>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">log in<\/a> to gain unlimited access to all analysis and data on Music Business Worldwide, plus other member benefits.\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mbw-plus__buttons\"><a class=\"buttons__subscribe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/mbw-plus\/\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n<a class=\"buttons__login\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/login\/\">Login<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Music Group boss gave commencement speech for graduates at Northeastern University over the weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":231314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130580],"class_list":["post-231276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-mbw-explains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}