Ari Emanuel
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And then when the vote came before the merger, you guys now have to get rid of Jim White because he's a disaster and the CFO.
All their hands went up because they realized, wait a second, these guys are good guys.
And we were.
So even before the merger closed, they got rid of them.
And then it just all happened.
And then that led to Egon coming into my life.
Teddy had gotten sick and passed away.
Teddy Forsman going after IMG.
And it was the best deal I've ever made.
This is where Egon was a great teacher.
He helped us think through because we knew we were going after IMG.
And then once we had IMG, I knew instinctually Patrick took over the college football business that they had and I moved to the UK and I took over IMG.
And that's how we split the baby.
And nobody was telling me I had to move to the UK.
I just realized, wait a second, I just spent $2.4 billion.
You better fucking get your ass to the UK and understand that business.
And none of those people wanted to stay because they didn't want us to win.
IMG didn't want us to win.
They wanted somebody else to win.
They wanted Chernin's group to win.