Michael Ovitz

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1,371 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 3 Feb

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The Knowledge Project · Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

You have to have foundation before you can build the house.

And Bloomberg did it.

It didn't all happen the first six months.

It literally took time to get up to speed.

And he did it.

But the key is he didn't stop until he left.

And when you're building momentum, you cannot quit.

And that's the counter argument to when we talked about cutting back.

When you're building momentum, you don't want to stop even for 10% of your time.

You don't want to stop.

It's a fascinating question.

I was actually thinking about that because my grandson started a new school here in Tribeca yesterday that's called the Alpha School.

And it's a completely different angle on education.

I really like what I saw.

And a lot of it's practical learning.

A lot of it's learning with things you're interested in.

And

I just believe that in one's life, they have to be on a constant and progressive learning curve, period, about anything.

I was up in the valley once, and Max Levchin is a great guy, founded a firm in PayPal, co-founded PayPal.

And I remember sitting in his office.

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