Braun, 43, scored his first big success discovering singer Justin Bieber on YouTube and helping turn the young Canadian into a global pop star
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“Look, it’s five years later,” Braun told attendees at Bloomberg’s Screentime conference in Los Angeles. “I think everyone, it’s time to move on.”
“There were a lot of things that were misrepresented,” Braun said of the documentary.
“It’s important in any kind of conflict that people actually communicate directly with each other,” Braun said. “I think when people actually take the time to stand in front of each other, have a conversation, they usually find out the monster’s not real.”
Braun, 43, is an entrepreneur and record executive who serves as chief executive officer of Hybe America, an offshoot of the Korean entertainment company Hybe Co. Braun said he’s in discussion with the company to extend his role at the US branch of the K-pop powerhouse.
A number of artists in his management roster have left in the past two years, including Demi Lovato. Braun announced his retirement from the artist management business in June to focus on the new responsibilities at Hybe America.
With Hybe founder and chairman Bang Si-Hyuk, Braun has been spearheading the solo project of BTS member Jung Kook as well as supporting Hybe artists’ activities in the U.S.
Braun was asked at the Screentime event which artist he’d most likely want to manage in the future.