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Michael Dorf on Building City Winery Into a 15-Location Music and Wine Experience Across America
🎙️ From the Knitting Factory to City Winery: Michael Dorf's 40-Year Journey Scaling Intimacy in Live Music
Michael Dorf, Founder and CEO of City Winery, shares his journey from dropping out of law school in Wisconsin and sleeping on a futon under his desk at an East Village performance space in 1987, through the painful dilution and exit from the Knitting Factory after 15 years of building one of New York's most important music venues, to founding City Winery in 2008, accidentally inventing wine on tap during the financial crisis, and surviving COVID by laying off 1,490 people in a single day…
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