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CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

2021/12/21
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Michael Ovitz讲述了CAA如何通过打包电影项目（剧本、导演、明星等）改变好莱坞的权力结构，让艺术家获得更多收益，并以此为蓝本启发了硅谷的投资模式。他详细描述了与迈克尔·克莱顿合作促成《侏罗纪公园》的幕后故事，以及如何与史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格等大导演合作，为艺术家争取到巨额收益。他还谈到了CAA如何通过创新策略赢得可口可乐的广告业务，以及如何将CAA发展成为一个强大的团队，并保持客户的长期忠诚。Ovitz还分享了他如何将CAA的商业模式应用于科技领域的投资，以及他与马克·安德森和本·霍洛维茨的合作经历。 Ben Gilbert和David Rosenthal作为主持人，引导Michael Ovitz讲述了CAA的创业历程、商业模式、以及与好莱坞传统模式的差异。他们还探讨了CAA的成功因素，包括团队合作、对客户的忠诚、以及对市场趋势的敏锐洞察。此外，他们还分析了CAA的商业模式如何影响好莱坞和硅谷的权力结构，以及CAA的演变和未来发展。

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Michael Ovitz discusses the founding of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and its impact on Hollywood, including representing top talent and influencing the power structure in the industry.
  • CAA was founded in 1975 by a group of young agents who disagreed with the direction of their previous agency.
  • The agency quickly gained influence by representing top talent like Dustin Hoffman and Paul Newman.
  • CAA changed the industry by packaging talent and projects, giving them more control over the creative process.

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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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