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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 5:04 David Senra Jay Maloney, the agent that I thought of as a son, and my eventual successor, would join the agency's posse of young Turks who disavowed me after I left CAA. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:55 David Senra Uh, Ovitz will have a very simple set of rules that, how he built CAA. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:12 David Senra They're gonna, like, take a bunch of people from this business, and this is how he's gonna start CAA. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:22 David Senra So even though they don't have a bunch of money, they get together, I think there's five of them, and they're going to start CAA. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:10 David Senra After copying the scripts in bulk, we slapped on bright red covers with white CIA logo and planted hundreds of them in beauty parlors, restaurants, and doctors offices. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:15 David Senra We promptly cut a deal for him to come to CAA that got us most of what we wanted, and all we had to pay Steve was 250,000 a year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:59 David Senra CAA was the first to orchestrate the entire development process. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:12 David Senra And it says part, the line here, it says part of me had begun to view CIA as a stepping stone. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:47 David Senra Coke agrees to pay CAA a consultancy fee of a million dollars a month plus expenses and costs. 6 times in the scene
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 7:13 David Senra Uh, decide the decision that, Hey, we're all going to service every single agent inside of CA is going to service the clients together. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:34 David Senra So Mark Andreessen, who actually modeled his venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz, on what Ovitz did at CAA, had a very similar line, and this is the way he describes what I feel is the same exact phenomenon.
- ▶ 20:15 David Senra You know, I think, uh, I forgot the number he told me, but I think within the first 10 years of CAA, 10 years after founding the company, they had like something like 75% market share.
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 18:49 David Senra And there's a second book about the founding of CAA, uh, the, the, the firm that Ovitz started that I'm going to read and make a podcast on as well.