Michael Ovitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they were killing the business and they were stealing records and they were duplicating tapes.
I went with 20 mega business people to lead that delegation.
We got nowhere.
And here I am on the phone with a PhD from Stanford
Telling me that he solved the problem.
And we put this company together, and I called up Sir Lucian Grange, who runs Universal.
And I said, Lucian, how long have you and I been working on IP theft?
And he said, our whole lives.
I said, I think I have the answer.
He said, tell me, show me.
I did.
He said, I'm in.
And now Universal and then Dennis Coker and Rob Stringer at Sony.
So we have the two biggest music companies and we're watermarking songs.
And we will go live very shortly.
Next thing we do is streaming.
We'll do film.
We will do athletic games.
I had no idea.
I was on the phone with...