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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:19:17 David Rosenthal His close friend and Hollywood super agent Michael Ovitz comes in as, um, Disney president to be Eisner's number two and help him operate the company in, uh, 1995.
- ▶ 1:19:27 Ben Gilbert Michael, famed past acquired guest.
- ▶ 1:19:36 Ben Gilbert I mean, Michael Ovitz built CAA into such a force in not only Hollywood, but kind of the whole creative community.
- ▶ 1:20:12 David Rosenthal Ovitz was an agent.
- ▶ 1:20:40 Ben Gilbert The job of being an agent is being liked, saying yes, wielding your power, making things happen quick, being involved in 15 projects at once, or in Michael Lovitz's case, 500 projects at once.
- ▶ 1:21:02 David Rosenthal So Ovitz lasts just over a year at Disney and leaves in December, 1996 with a hundred and forty million dollar severance package.
- ▶ 1:21:12 Ben Gilbert Cuz neither Ovitz nor Eisner thought there was any chance this was gonna fall apart, and so the Walt Disney Company was willing to put in a contract and say, if you don't make it
- ▶ 1:22:45 Ben Gilbert Uh, sort of business model, operating model things under one roof, and bringing in Michael Ovitz, what was he supposed to run?
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:32 Ben Gilbert As discussed on our interview with Michael Ovitz.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:03:14 David Rosenthal And super agent Michael Ovitz.
- ▶ 3:03:27 David Rosenthal Ovitz and CAA are official advisors on the deal.
- ▶ 3:03:32 Ben Gilbert When Ovitz tried to take it from a talent agency and movie packaging into also doing investment banking.
- ▶ 3:03:39 David Rosenthal And on the back of that success, expanding CAA into investment banking, Ovitz is like, why stop there?
- ▶ 3:03:53 David Rosenthal So he comes back to Cosetta and Keough and says, Hey, I want to pitch you guys on taking over as your ad agency from McCann Erickson.
- ▶ 3:04:07 David Rosenthal Ovitz's pitch is pretty good.
- ▶ 3:04:09 David Rosenthal He's like, hey, McCann Erickson has been great for you guys.
- ▶ 3:05:20 David Rosenthal So he pitches Coke that CAA can make 40 ads a year for them.
- ▶ 3:05:59 David Rosenthal Ovitz makes the polar bears.
- ▶ 3:06:04 Ben Gilbert Ovitz found the talent through the CAA network to make the polar bears.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:25:05 Ben Gilbert From like, 1975 to 2000, Michael Ovitz put everything together.
- ▶ 2:25:44 Ben Gilbert I had a one-sided view of Michael based on just his short tenure at Disney.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 12:08 David Rosenthal There's all these spy shots of Bill meeting with John Malone at TCI and Gerald Levin at Time Warner, and Bill starts spending time with Michael Ovitz talking about how Microsoft can get in on the content game too, either through the MSN…
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:18 Ben Gilbert Pei, famous from a number of things, including previous Acquired episode with Michael Ovitz, designed the CAA building in Los Angeles, designed the Louvre pyramid.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 1:47:44 Ben Gilbert Oh, we switched it with the Michael Ovitz episode.
- ▶ 1:47:46 Ben Gilbert I think Michael, we interviewed Michael first.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 37:25 Ben Gilbert This is like Michael Ovitz when his application for credit to start CAA had been discovered by the upper level management of his old firm.
- ▶ 37:35 Ben Gilbert He was out.
- ▶ 37:36 Ben Gilbert He was done.
- ▶ 2:57:53 Ben Gilbert And, um, Is that where he talks about the Michael Ovitz episode too?
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:52 David Rosenthal They start talking to Sid Sheinberg about this, and Sid's like, you know, Lou and Sid, as we talked about with Michael Ovitz, they are smart cookies, uh, and they were behind aggregating all the power in Hollywood before Ovitz came along,…
- ▶ 1:06:15 Ben Gilbert I didn't know this when we interviewed Michael through this relationship about developing the VHS format and then offering their content exclusively in VHS that MCA Universal had a preexisting relationship of collaboration with Matsushita.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 29:58 Ben Gilbert She's the Michael Ovitz of the teen country music industry in Nashville, right?
- ▶ 2:04:13 Ben Gilbert So Universal Music Group is now a totally separate entity, but at one point was part of MCA Universal, which Michael Ovitz sold to Matsushita.
- ▶ 2:17:00 unnamed speaker I think she's the Michael Ovitz too.