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

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.

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