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Michael Ovitz

👤 Speaker
1591 total appearances

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

one of the heads of the Premier League in London.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

And he called me because I know one of the owners and he said, we hear you have some technology that can help us.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

I said, well, why do you need help?

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Because I was curious.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

He said, hard to believe, but we have over 30 teams.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

We have 750,000 illegal downloads, every team, every game.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

I said, how's that possible?

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

He said, you could literally go on

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

to Google and find out how to get around paying for a sporting event with very simple instructions.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

I was kind of shocked, frankly.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Well, that's a good question.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

It's a simple answer because I think about it so much.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

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.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

And I think you're 100% right, and that's the stopper.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

But...

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

The reality is there's ways of doing it.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

Like I now book out my free time on my own calendar.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

And I just – it's there and it's not – it doesn't get booked.

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

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 –

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Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

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.