entertainment business

4 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 30, 2025 by Barry Diller · across every show →

Everything said about entertainment business, oldest first

Sep 30, 2025 positive
Insight
Diller: Forceful and excessive personalities are necessary to persuade in business
“Excessiveness is not a bad quality, and also, if you're trying to convince people of things, you probably gotta have either forceful personality, forceful something.”
Barry Diller Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 15:00 Barry Diller: Building IAC
Feb 3, 2026 positive
Insight
Ovitz: Packaging tech startups is functionally identical to packaging entertainment projects
“But other than that, the packaging of a film or a television show or a record or a book is no different than the packaging of an idea for a digital company, for a company in technology. It's all the same. The founder's the creator. The VCs, the money in tech, …”
Michael Ovitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 32:33 Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
Feb 3, 2026 negative
Opinion
Ovitz: 1970s Hollywood agents fabricated answers over half the time
“When I started CA in seven day four, it became very clear to me that lying was a industrial problem in the entertainment business. Everybody didn't tell the truth. One of the reasons they did not tell the truth is since they didn't know the term knowledge is p…”
Michael Ovitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 2:58 Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
Feb 3, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ovitz: CAA financially supported early executive allies who fell on hard times
“You know, at CA we kept a list of every single executive That helped us in the first three or five years that then had trouble, and we got everyone a job, and if we couldn't get them a job, we made sure they had money. Because they helped us when we had nothin…”
Michael Ovitz Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 38:59 Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
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