Creative Artists Agency
also referred to as: caa
14 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 23, 2025 by Michael Ovitz · said 41 times in 4 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Michael Ovitz (27), David Senra (13), Marc Andreessen (1)
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2026 19 mentions in 2 episodes 10 per episode
2025 22 mentions in 2 episodes 11 per episode
Everything said about Creative Artists Agency, oldest first
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
Ovitz: Mike Nichols's fee increased $2 million after joining CAA
“Mike Nichols' price, because he was put in with our clients, you know, Oliver Stone, Barry Levinson, Ron Howard, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Marty Scorsese, everybody, his price went up two million dollars, because he fit into A higher strata price with…”
Nov 23, 2025 positive
Nov 23, 2025 positive
Patrick Collison spent 2.5 hours interrogating Ovitz's career mistakes
“Patrick sits down. He said, are you ready? I said, yeah, I'm starving. He goes, no, no, no, no. See your book? I said, yeah. He says, I have a lot of questions. I said, oh, sure, anything. He said, no. I want to know. I've marked every place you made a mistake…”
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
Ovitz: Traveled weekly to NYC and took red-eyes to work six-day weeks
“I traveled to New York every week, to Japan once a month, and to Europe once a month, and, but I did, I decided to do everything short. So if I went to New York, I would go for one day But I'd get in that one day, breakfast, lunch, drinks, dinner, meetings in …”
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025 positive
Ovitz: All businesses require aggressive market control and pursuit of monopoly
“Every business is the same. Now, the details are different, right, but the business is. The blocking and tackling is all the same. And it's always about momentum and focus and loyalty and aggressive, ah, control of marketplace and monopoly. Monopoly. I'm a mon…”
Aug 9, 2026 neutral
Aug 9, 2026
Ovitz mailed weekly CAA movie star signing announcements to rival agency partners
“Every time we signed a movie star, which was once a week, we took out a full red page ad in Variety. This is when there was no computers. People actually read and took out every Friday. Every time we signed a movie star, I took that ad, tore it, put it in an e…”
Aug 9, 2026
Ovitz: CAA once represented 46 of the top 50 box office filmmakers
“At one time, CAA representative of the top 50 grossing variety box office filmmakers, we had 46. 46. And I was upset, because I didn't have all of them. There were four I couldn't get, and it really upset me, and it gnawed at me my whole career there.”
Aug 9, 2026
Ovitz: Building tech startups is structurally identical to packaging Hollywood entertainment
“A film or a television show or a book or a song is packaged around talent. Talent, creator, engineer, same thing. Talent needs someone to help execute. Engineer needs people around them to help get the business in line and organize, coded, whatever they need d…”