Michael Ovitz
speaker
1,371 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 3 Feb
Michael Ovitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
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