Cory Robbins
The first , Profile Records ( in business from 1981 to 1996; Robbins left in 1994 ) , grew to become a large independent label that proved key in the rise of hip-hop as a commercially viable genre , most notably in breaking hip-hop's first multiplatinum act , Run-D . M . C . 
<triplet> Profile Records <subj> 1981 <obj> inception