Michael Ovitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's highly acceptable.
Entertainment business, everybody knows everything.
They know everything.
It's not possible, by the way.
Not possible.
And I think it's just very fine to show that you're not and that you want to find out.
And then the second thing we did was insist on teamwork, which was shocking to everybody because in –
You know, for 75 years, it was one client, one agent.
And we would not allow that.
All of our clients had multiple agents, so they could talk to a lot of different people.
In the years I was at CAA, we never lost a client.
And the reason was if they tired of one person, they'd go to the next.
But everyone was up to speed.
I mean up to the minute on their career.
Inner office rule was you had to answer your associates first before the clients, before the buyers.
And we were all basically empowered by each other.
And if you look at it, the permutation of that thesis is to the hundredth power.
You can't beat it.
And by the way, it's one of the reasons we attracted most of the major working talent.