I LIKE TO EMPLOY THE POWER OF NO": JARED LETO
MORE FROM THE SINGER-ACTOR-INVESTOR ON HOW HIS PERSONAL MISSION GOVERNS HIS PROFESSIONAL LIFE.
BY ROBERT SAFIAN
Jared Leto is backstage at a major concert venue in Romania just a few hours before his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, will headline for throngs of ecstatic fans. Leto could be boasting about the group's triumphant growth over the past decade, from minor opening act to bona fide phenomenon. (Two days before, the group packed a venue in Hungary, and tomorrow it will be Bulgaria, part of a worldwide tour that will extend from South America to South Africa.) Leto could be harping on his Academy Award earlier this year for his role in the movie Dallas Buyers Club. Instead, though, he is talking about enterprise software.
Yep, Leto is a tech geek. "We use Slack, Basecamp, Box," he says, noting some of the tools that his team uses to communicate while he's touring. "Sometimes we suggest, hey we really want this feature. Being deeply immersed in tech is an awesome doorway.