Ari Emanuel
CEO, TKO Group Holdings. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ari Emanuel co-founded the Endeavor Talent Agency and orchestrated its merger into William Morris Endeavor. He later led Endeavor's acquisitions of UFC and WWE to form the publicly traded sports-entertainment conglomerate TKO Group Holdings.
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53statements
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7said about them ↓ Everything Ari Emanuel said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Emanuel: AI capital expenditures only pay off if human jobs are eliminated
“And the only way it pays off, unless I'm wrong. Now, George Gilder would scream at me. He goes, every technology has created more jobs. This is the only technology at this level of spend. You have to be taking jobs. Jobs have to go away.”
Emanuel: Elon Musk said humans will be like dogs to AI
“I'm having my normal every six month meeting, lunch, dinner with Elon, and we're talking about AI.
He said this to me, he goes, life cannot be disrupted.
And I said, okay.
I have two ears.
So then we're talking about AI and he goes to me, all right, do you hav…”
Ari Emanuel predicts AI and robotics will create three-day workweeks
“It's kind of like a four-day work week now, probably going down to three. I was seeing Elon and seeing the robots, probably three-day work week for full employment.”
Emanuel: AI will slash production costs and resurrect deceased actors
“You know, what it's going to do, whether it be Sora, Grok, all the, it's just going to make production costs, filming, DPs, costumes. I mean, it's just, and then you're going to be able to, Either bring Betty Davis back or Elizabeth Taylor. It's going to happe…”
Emanuel: TKO sent cease-and-desist to OpenAI over UFC data
“Well, we sent the bad letter to Sam. Like stop using the UFC and the WWE and so on.”
Emanuel: AI companies will pay IP owners without Supreme Court intervention
“They're gonna have to pay. I think, unless the Supreme Court says something.”
Emanuel: Live events are the ultimate structural counter-bet to AI
“I don't know how to write an algorithm for AI. I don't know how to build a data center. I'm not in a chip business. I just know how to, Create really great live events, monetize them, have a great user experience. And it's the opposite because data says data c…”
Emanuel: Zuffa Boxing can eventually outgrow the UFC and WWE
“So if we do that now, I think it can be as big or bigger than the UFC and the WWE and they're big.”
Emanuel: Elon Musk showed me Optimus robots throwing punches and kicks
“And what the hand could do beyond, I mean, it's, it does what you and I do. And then he showed me a couple of them that could fight and throw punches and kicks and the balance and the pushing. Unbelievable.”
Emanuel: Endeavor paid $44M to buy out William Morris executives
“Was quote unquote merging with William Morris, forty four million dollars paid out the CFO and Jim Wyatt. They never thought we were going to write a check for twenty million dollars and have the votes to fire them. Patrick Weissel and I did that and got the d…”
Emanuel: Nobody is more qualified for president than Rahm Emanuel
“When you look at the potential field of potential candidates for presidents, and there's some, I mean, Gretchen Whitmore, I know Josh, I know a lot of these guys, and they're all very qualified on a global basis. And he is as relentless and as driven as I am i…”
Emanuel: Major creators will become standalone media channels within 7 years
“Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, Dana White, Pat McAfee, they're all going to become their own channels. I do believe actually, I don't know if that's in two years. Or in seven years.”
Emanuel: Podcasting will mimic cable and Oprah's syndication model
“I think the podcasting business is going to become like the cable business. It's going to become like Oprah.”
Emanuel: Sports leagues will raise PE ownership caps to 35%
“Well, they'll just change. They'll go from PE firms owning. 10%. 35. Yeah. And they'll, instead of, they can only take a billion dollars of debt out. They'll take, they can take two billion dollars. I mean. Yeah.”
Emanuel: Sam Altman has $1.2T in obligations and 800M subscribers
“Sam has made a trillion two in obligations. He has eight hundred million subs. Let's just say he does fourteen billion in revenue. We'll probably lose five billion.”
Emanuel: Top podcasters will recreate traditional TV syndication networks
“You'll probably see that reincarnated through people with podcasts, if they want to.”
Emanuel: Talent representation provides crucial executive access for TKO media deals
“Being in the representation business, whether it be Marty Scorsese or Dwayne Johnson or Mark Wahlberg or Peter Berg or Greg, a whole host of my clients, Aaron Sork, enables me to make The deals over at TKO because I'm in the conversation with YouTube, Amazon, …”
Emanuel: TV creators can no longer make $500M+ in syndication deals
“If you have a show that goes into syndication and it gets six million dollars an episode, you can't make five, six hundred million dollars anymore”
Ari Emanuel: Domestic sports media pricing will fall without global expansion
“I think a bunch of them are going to have to adapt, and I think for some of them, pricing is going to have to come down, because I don't think the U.S. Domestic market is the right place for them.”
Emanuel: John Skipper misled Endeavor about wanting UFC rights
“ESPN fires John Skipper, who was always shining me on that he wanted it. He never wanted it. Bob Iger and Kevin Mayer say we want it cause we're going to go direct.”
Emanuel: The weekend starts Thursday now, and Wednesday by 2027
“Drive times now are 11 to four across America. Hotel bookings Thursdays way up. And there's a lot of more data points to this. So the weekend starts Thursday now. And we're, you know, 2025, maybe 2027, they start Wednesday.”
Emanuel: Zuffa boxing league model will increase fighter pay
“And if we do that, I think fighters are going to make more money because right now you don't know any great fighters. It's not like you can't name one. We think we can do that. And then boxers will make more money.”
Emanuel: Personally invested in SpaceX, X, and xAI
“If I'm a betting man, first of all, if I'm a betting man, I'm betting on that dude. I bet I'm on SpaceX, X, XAI, Twitter.”
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| INVEST LIKE THE BESTLEDGER | CEO, TKO Group Holdings | 1 | 41 | 86% 6/7 | full record on Invest Like the Best → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | CEO, TKO Group Holdings | 1 | 12 | — | full record on All-In → |