Bad Boy Records, Miramax, Time Warner, HBO, Sony, Disney, Loud Records, Interscope, on and on.

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Phil Robinson, who once served as Combs' Bad Boy Records lieutenant, can now be seen on VH1's wildly popular "Basketball Wives" series.

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Combs continued on, from his early days running Bad Boy Records, to become a cottage industry with everything from clothing lines to restaurant chains, not to mention music-making.

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Update: Max, partner Yves Darbouze and their global team of ten Web designers--average age 23, none of whom has ever met the others--have signed up a new client: Stevie Wonder. (This in addition to Bad Boy Records and Microsoft.) Max and Yves are picking up clients like crazy.

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The singer bought back control of Bad Boy Entertainment in June this year, ending his decade-long relationship with Arista Records.

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