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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one of the heads of the Premier League in London.
And he called me because I know one of the owners and he said, we hear you have some technology that can help us.
I said, well, why do you need help?
Because I was curious.
He said, hard to believe, but we have over 30 teams.
We have 750,000 illegal downloads, every team, every game.
I said, how's that possible?
He said, you could literally go on
to Google and find out how to get around paying for a sporting event with very simple instructions.
I was kind of shocked, frankly.
Well, that's a good question.
It's a simple answer because I think about it so much.
I could have cut back 10% of my business time where I did nothing but business and let Momentum carry it forward and other people that worked with me and use that 10% of my time for my family, for my art collecting, for reading, for other things that were important to me.
And I think you're 100% right, and that's the stopper.
But...
The reality is there's ways of doing it.
Like I now book out my free time on my own calendar.
And I just – it's there and it's not – it doesn't get booked.
There's a negative in that as a successful business person where you're feeding on the dopamine of getting all these wonderful things done and –
Because you're on this roll and you have momentum, you can get so much more done that you want to do it every second of the day.
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