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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…”
CAA disrupted Hollywood by proactively packaging talent rather than waiting
“We weren't going to wait for offers. We were going to aggressively try to put things together and package which hadn't been done, and we'd never let anything go out that wasn't surrounded with like-minded creative people.”
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…”
Ovitz: CAA operated with no corporate titles or vice presidents
“There are no politics in this company. It's an egalitarian group. We didn't have officers. There were no vice presidents. I didn't have a title. No one had a title. We're all agents.”
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.”
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.”
Ovitz: CAA represented every single cast member on Saturday Night Live
“We represented every single person on that show, and everyone thought we were nuts, because in those days, if you did TV, you couldn't get a movie.”