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WEEKEND WISDOM BANK: J.B. Miller & The Empire State of Design

How J.B. Miller turned 40 years of live experience into Empire Entertainment — a company that plans for protest, reads silence, and still believes in the power of what happens in the room.

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David Adler
Jul 13, 2025
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Empire’s J.B. Miller

There’s a difference between pulling off an event and holding the moment. J.B. Miller built a company around that difference — and called it Empire.

It started in 1993, after years working in music television, talent booking, and what he now calls the “durable pressure of live everything.” He’d booked talent for MTV, programmed concer…

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