Ian Schrager on Here’s the Thing

In a fascinating conversation on his Here’s the Thing podcast, Alec Baldwin talks with Ian Schrager, who started and co-owned Studio 54 with the late Steve Rubell. After Studio 54 (and 13 months in prison for tax evasion), Schrager and Rubell went into the hotel business and invented the concept of the “boutique” hotel with Morgans, their first property that launched an empire.

Now with his own company (Ian Schrager Company), Schrager continues out of his passion for the the work, maintaining the same simple philosophy he had since he started in the hospitality business: Make people comfortable, and change their expectations.

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