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Ovitz: Silicon Valley harmed creativity by training viewers for short content
“The, you know, the one negative thing that the Valley has done for creativity is they have trained viewers, which I thought was impossible, 20 years ago, to consume content differently.”
Ovitz: Woke movement constrained film and books, but not music
“It's hard to believe that it's had a huge impact on what you see, what you read, not what you hear. Musicians have been really clever about getting around that, because if you watch some of their music videos, they just do what they want to do, but it's short …”
Ovitz: Hollywood's entertainment community is overly insular and siloed
“The thing about Los Angeles and the, and particularly the entertainment community is it's an incredibly siloed community. They don't accept people. Very well from the outside, which, by the way, makes it very inbred, and it's not particularly wise.”
Ovitz: Streaming has basically destroyed the legacy entertainment business
“First of all, streaming has basically destroyed the legacy business.”
Ovitz: Streaming eliminated back-end profit-sharing deals in entertainment
“The entertainment business went from a, you get paid up front, and then you get a piece of the profits. So since streaming's come, you get paid up front, there are no profits.”
Ovitz: CAA represented 75% of Hollywood talent eight years after founding
“So we basically took 75% of the talent to the company within eight years of starting.”
Ovitz: Modern media is returning to legacy network-style censorship
“Some of the biggest fights as agents we ever had was protecting our creatives against the authority of what was the censorship department. And we're right back there now. We are right back there now.”
Ovitz: Palantir saved JPMorgan $150M in 55 days during 2008 crisis
“And we delivered in 55 days and we saved them one hundred and fifty million dollars to the bottom line in that 55 day period.”
Ovitz: Netflix's interactive multi-ending show failed to generate lasting buzz
“Netflix did an experiment with a show with a bunch of different endings, and it's fascinating. You never heard anything about it.”
Ovitz: U.S. entertainment was historically second largest export behind aircraft
“At one time, entertainment was the second largest export of the United States, which no one realizes between movies, television, books, and records. Second largest export after aircraft.”
Ovitz: CAA was founded on team-based client representation
“Started CAA with a very simple thesis, which was that we were going to do something as a team rather than individually.”
Ovitz: Peter Thiel originally self-funded Palantir alongside a small DARPA investment
“And he put a ton of his own money into Palantir. He had no investors. He had a small investment from DARPA.”