Michael Ovitz
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Podcast Appearances
And why are you leaving?
He said, well, I'm done.
I said, what do you mean you're done?
He said, well, I'm so embarrassed.
We went bankrupt.
And he said, I had to fire like 800 people or something.
I said, yeah, so what?
He said, what do you mean, so what?
I said, so what?
You went bankrupt.
You didn't do it on purpose, did you?
He said, no, we had a bad business cycle.
One of our products fell off a cliff.
We had a great product, but we didn't back it up.
We made some fundamental mistakes.
He said, so I want to get out of the city.
I I'm kind of embarrassed.
I said, well, our dinner, our lunch is over.
And everyone said, what are you talking?
We haven't even gotten served.