Michael Ovitz
23 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 8, 2025 by Michael Ovitz · said 20 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2025 20 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
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Apr 8, 2025 positive
Palantir Co-Founder Stephen Cohen Interviewed Engineers in 10-Minute Blocks
“One of his partners, Stefan Kohn, brilliant young engineer would take one meeting every 10 minutes with an engineer. And they were, I had an office next to him, so I'd watch this parade of young men and women sitting lined up for 10 minutes with Stefan. And he…”
Apr 8, 2025 positive
Ovitz: CAA held 90-day 'gong shows' with 90-second pitches from 250 execs
“You know, at CA we had a, Every 90 days a gong show, and we lined everyone up in a circle, 250 people that were working executives, and they were all seated within an inch of each other, tight in an oval. They had 90 seconds to present a new idea.”
Apr 8, 2025
Startup Investing Follows the Exact Same Process as Hollywood Talent Packaging
“You find an idea or a young person, so that could be a director or an actor or an idea from Michael Crichton, and then you develop it, and then you finance it, you get it money, then you help them shape the business or the package, then you cast it, and then y…”
Apr 8, 2025 negative
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Apr 8, 2025 positive
Ovitz: Glenn Lowry Populated MoMA's Board Exclusively With Art Collectors
“Secondly, he populated the board with the most diverse, amazing group of men and women, but they had one common denominator. They were all art collectors of something. They collected something. So they had a passion for the arts.”
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Apr 8, 2025 positive
Ovitz: Gulfstream's turnaround required a board of super-salesmen, not financial engineering
“And I said, Teddy, there's only one thing you can do. You need to recruit a board that becomes the greatest set of super salesmen in history, because You don't need our advice. You don't need our financial engineering. You don't need us to read balance sheets.…”
Apr 8, 2025 neutral
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Apr 8, 2025 neutral
Ovitz: U.S. Political Leaders Should Require Five Years of Business Experience
“I think that in order to run for governor or mayor of any city or state or president United States or vice president United States, you have to have had five years of business experience. You have to show on your LinkedIn, That you ran a business. Period.”
Apr 8, 2025 positive
Ovitz: Marc Andreessen matches or exceeds Michael Crichton in intellect
“15 minutes into the conversation, I'm in a state of shock. I'm sitting with one of the smartest human beings I've ever talked to. Now, bear in mind, My best friend at the time was a guy named Michael Crichton. You can't get any smarter than that or more curiou…”
Apr 8, 2025
Art Dealer Larry Gagosian Started as Michael Ovitz's Assistant in 1970
“Larry was my assistant at the William Morris Agency in 1970. And he was really good. And he had a way with people. He was smart. He was tempered aggressive. And he showed all the promise in the world. And we worked together for about a year.”
Apr 8, 2025 positive
Ovitz: Martin Scorsese's individual movie frames could stand alone as artwork
“A longtime client and a good friend, Marty Scorsese, who's a genius, absolute genius at how he looks at life, the prism he looks at it through, and then how he regurgitates it back into a visual image. His frames, if you pull them out of his movies, could stan…”
Apr 8, 2025
Ovitz: CAA forced studios to deal through agency-assigned reps
“We insisted that if you, Patrick, wanted to package someone in your, the O'Shaughnessy production, You dealt with the agent that represented CAA and all our clients. That was our conceit. You didn't go to the agent that handled the client”
Apr 8, 2025 bullish
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Apr 8, 2025
Ovitz: Elite talent shares intense intelligence and burning desire to learn
“All these people that I've been fortunate enough to come in contact with all have very similar traits. They're interesting. They're aggressive to certain degrees in their own way. Some blatantly, some not so. They're wicked intelligent. They are perceptive. An…”
Jul 29, 2025 bullish
Naimi: Michael Ovitz owns the best Picasso, Rothko, and Kline artworks
“Michael, you know, I think he's got three Picassos, but I think he's got the three best Picassos ever. And he's got probably the best Mark Rothko I've ever seen. He's got the best Franz Klein I'd seen. Even on contemporary artists, he has the single best Laura…”