Michael Ovitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
To me, packaging is a sine qua non of life.
I package everything in my life.
I put elements together.
Constantly.
I just put a business together by combining two disparate elements and it turned out to be a business from something that wasn't a business.
It's no different than packaging a television show when I told you.
You know, when Michael Crichton gave me the book of Jurassic Park, I put the right director with it, Steven Spielberg.
There was no second choice.
A friend of mine who I have unbelievable respect for, professor of AI at Stanford named Chris Ray, calls me up and said, Michael, I got a friend who's also a professor at Stanford, really bright guy.
And I want you to meet him.
And he's got really interesting technology, but he's having some trouble getting it off the ground.
And I said, OK, Chris, what is it?
He said, well, he's got a NFT company.
I said, Chris, I'm not interested.
And he said, why is that?
I don't like NFTs.
I just don't like.
I'm an art collector.
I'm not.
And they were hot at one time.