Ovitz defaults to twenty-minute Zoom meetings instead of standard hour blocks
Michael Ovitz · Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them" · Aug 9, 2026 · at 34:12
CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz describes his personal operating rules for ruthless time efficiency in business.
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“When someone says to me, I have to take an hour of Zoom, I kind of laugh at them. I said, what law is there on the planet that says a Zoom has to be an hour? I said, frankly, if you get free Zoom, they cut you off in 45 minutes. I said, so what rule is it that has to be an hour? Oh, I don't know. I do them in 20 minutes.”
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