Why entrepreneur Tony Fernandes chose the airline sector — when he already had a top job in the music industry

If you look at entrepreneur Tony Fernandes' career history, you'll find an impressive job catalog from the likes of Virgin Communications, Warner Music and a U.K. soccer club.

What Fernandes is probably best known for however, is heading up AirAsia, a low-cost Malaysian airline.

But how did he make the jump into the airline space? CNBC sat down with the entrepreneur in a "Life Hacks Live" episode, to find out more.

"I was in the music business, I kind of got tired of people telling me what to do from somewhere in New York, and I was against the merger of AOL and Time Warner. So I just quit," Fernandes told CNBC, adding that he didn't want to take someone's salary and be a hypocrite, while he complained about it.