Michael Ovitz
15 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2025 by Michael Ovitz · said 13 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 10 mentions in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jul 7, 2025 neutral
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Jul 7, 2025
Ovitz: CAA and Andy Grove founded Intel Media Lab in 1992
“In 1992, I was lucky enough to meet a guy named Andy Grove, who was the co-founder of Intel, and we created the CA Intel Media Lab in Beverly Hills to educate the secular head-in-the-sand entertainment business about what was coming around the corner.”
Jul 7, 2025 positive
CAA secured private school admissions for clients' children through agency donations
“One of the things we pioneered at CA was We literally service the clients on everything. They wanted to buy a house. We helped them. They wanted to buy a car. We knew all the dealers. They wanted to get their kids into private schools. We had contributed to th…”
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Ovitz ruthlessly purges unhelpful contacts from his calendar every Sunday
“Every Sunday, I review my calendar from the prior week, and I carry forward Those that I enjoyed and want to meet again. I carry forward people that I made money with. I carry forward people I learned something with. And I delete people that I found irritating…”
Jul 7, 2025
Ovitz: Record label CEOs rejected 1990s warning that physical media would vanish
“I told three of the five record companies I consulted for that all their packaged goods were going to disappear, because Nathan Mirvold, who is the smartest guy, was employee number three at Microsoft, was CTO, said to me in a meeting one day in the nineties, …”
Jul 7, 2025 negative
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Ovitz confirms James B. Stewart's DisneyWar accurately portrays his Disney tenure
“I mean, they wrote a book about it called Disney Wars, and it's quite accurate. Jim Stewart is not a guy that Writes things that aren't true in anything he does, and it just didn't turn out the way I thought it was going to turn out.”
Jul 7, 2025 positive
CAA secured jobs for fired studio executives who helped them early on
“We also kept a list of executives that got fired, and the executives that helped us At the first five years of the company, we're given priority for jobs, and we got every one of them a job. Every one who got fired who helped us when we had nothing.”
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025 negative
Ovitz: Service professionals must keep clients at arm's length, not be friends
“I used to preach to all of our people to not think their clients were their friends and to treat them appropriately at arm's length and don't Confide in your personal life. They don't want to hear it. They may tell you they do, but they're not interested. Plus…”
Jul 7, 2025 positive
Jul 7, 2025