Michael Ovitz

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, the studio or the distributor, the money in the entertainment business.

And then you go to the marketing.

They both need to be marketed.

And you got to find a distributor.

And you got to give them both advice.

It's very much the same.

Ben Horowitz and Mark Andreessen pointed that out to me in 1999.

They both looked at me and said, you do exactly what we do.

And that was like an epiphany moment for me.

Well, I got a cold call from a mutual friend of ours, Ron Conway, great investor, fabulous human being, one of the nicest men on the planet.

great, well-loved up in San Francisco.

And we knew each other through UCLA because he had a kid down there and I was running the board at the hospital.

And we had had some contact on some personal issues.

And he said, I've got a guy I want you to meet.

And I said, who's that?

He said, Marc Andreessen.

I said, who is it?