Michael Ovitz

He said, well, he's really smart.

You're going to really like him.

He wants to meet you.

And of course, I said, why?

Would he want to meet me?

What do I have to offer this guy?

He said, shut up and just meet the guy.

And I said, okay, because Ron was that kind of guy.

If he said meet him, I'm going to meet him.

And that, by the way, has continued in my life.

If people I respect say to me, meet the guy, even if I don't want to, or the gal, I will do it.

And it just worked for me on a company, which we can talk about later, that we just announced last week that we incubated where I met someone that I refused to meet, but someone I respect said, you better meet him.

but and treason came down to meet me and he picked a restaurant someplace and i budgeted an hour for the meeting because i thought it was a complete waste of my time and he came in a pair of shorts that were striped with a kind of flower hawaiian shirt and uh

I had never seen that look in Hollywood, but we sat down and we started talking.

We spent three hours together.

I was mesmerized by this guy.

And then he had me meet Ben and I was mesmerized by him.

They were extraordinary people who were in a world I didn't know existed.

And they asked me to go on the board of this new company.

And I asked them what it did, and they told me, and I said, I don't understand.