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Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 1:58 Michael Ovitz Today, and for the last, I started in 92 working in technology while I was still at CAA.
- ▶ 10:28 Michael Ovitz We started CA in 1974. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Michael Ovitz I did when I was at CA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:05 Michael Ovitz What I learned from Irvin was an extraordinary lesson that helped me build CAA, which was when he was doing the fast break on, which was referred to as Showtime, down that court, he had no goal except to score, and he didn't care who got… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:27 Michael Ovitz At one time, CAA representative of the top 50 grossing variety box office filmmakers, we had 46.
- ▶ 44:20 Michael Ovitz When I ran CAA, I had a very simple thesis.
- ▶ 54:46 Michael Ovitz Started a music division at CA that to this day is the tops.
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 33:44 David Senra Until you start your company six, seven years later, you're observing all of the weaknesses in the model, and that's where you have, hey, why don't we take the CAA? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:01 Marc Andreessen And so part of what, I think what Michael would say, I think you would agree with this, part of what made CAA possible is at one point, basically, Hollywood was just boogies.
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 1:24 David Senra You do have this, like, encyclopedic knowledge, especially about the work you were doing at CAA, but I feel like the way you would describe it is that you have to work a lot harder.
- ▶ 9:02 Michael Ovitz At CAA, I
- ▶ 16:03 Michael Ovitz It absolutely changed my life, and I then remember sitting in my office at CAA, and my, this is probably 1516 years later, and I'm telling this story, and David Rockefeller's sitting in the front, at the front table at this dinner for 500… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:29 Michael Ovitz When I started the agency, the knowledge bank of experiences that I have now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:09 Michael Ovitz I read everything I got my hands on about the golden years of the movie business, and I used it for CAA when we started in 1974. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:06 David Senra You didn't have it at the time you were building C.A., but do you have that, did you have it after, and do you have it now? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:41 Michael Ovitz It's creative business, but it's not, it's, we called it Creative Argus for a reason, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:52 Michael Ovitz Then CA moved another notch up in the ecosystem.
- ▶ 1:35:42 Michael Ovitz We didn't lose an agent in the whole time I was at CA, not one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:51:31 David Senra When you were building CAA, though, you were under enormous amounts of stress.
- ▶ 2:01:01 Michael Ovitz I mean, I had some experience in tech from 92 with my Andy Grove Intel CAA deal, meeting Gates in 93, but
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- ▶ 31:35 David Senra And I was struck by, like, the fact that he didn't know himself at, you know, 25 or, I think he was 27 when he, when he started CA.