Creative Talent

topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes

My First Million Capital Allocators Top Founders

3 statements about Creative Talent, every show

Ovitz: The lens for evaluating tech founders and creative artists is identical
“Nothing. I had founders start with an idea, and usually nothing else. Let's put off to the side a technical founder who may have come up with a fabulous algorithm that no one else has, but he still has to have an idea for it. What's he gonna do with it? What's…”
Michael Ovitz Jul 7, 2025 ▶ 34:34 Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
Parr: The most interesting creative people are the hardest to manage
“And hiring and retaining and developing talent on a media, as a media company, that's really, really, really hard. You got to find interesting people, which is hard. And then the most interesting creative people are typically also the biggest pain, pain in the…”
Sam Parr Sep 11, 2024 ▶ 32:43 The $70M/yr Sports Bar + Sleepy Industries Worth $100M
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Griffin claims over half of creative talent now works freelance
“Creative talent's going freelance. Way over half of them right now are freelance.”
Joe Griffin Aug 10, 2018 ▶ 15:35 1112 150 Pay Him $3m For Content Marketing at Scale

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