CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

Season 9 ends at the beginning — with the man who changed
Hollywood forever and wrote the blueprint for A16Z’s upending of
Silicon Valley a generation later, Michael Ovitz and his “Dream
Factory”, Creative Artists Agency. From Jurassic Park to
Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Goodfellas, Rain Man, ER, and
even the Coca-Cola polar bears... almost nothing in 80s and 90s
pop culture didn’t have CAA’s stamp on it. Speaking of dreams,
this episode was totally one for us, and we hope you enjoy
listening to it as much as we did making it!!


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Michael’s (truly excellent) book, Who Is Michael Ovitz?:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B2HS77M/



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