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Acquired

CAA (with Michael Ovitz)

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

I was watching you at Bill Murray at the 92nd Street Y.

0:03.0

How great is Bill, right?

0:05.0

He's like the worst interviewer ever,

0:08.0

but he's hilarious, he's Bill Murray.

0:10.0

We'll let you talk more than Bill did.

0:12.0

Who got the truth?

0:15.0

Is it you, is it you, is it you?

0:17.0

Who got the truth now?

0:20.0

Is it you, is it you, is it you?

0:22.0

Sitting down, saying straight

0:25.0

Another story on the way

0:27.0

Who got the truth?

0:29.0

Welcome to season 9, episode 8,

0:32.0

the season finale of Acquired,

0:34.0

the podcast about great technology companies

0:36.0

and the stories and playbooks behind them.

0:38.0

I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder

0:40.0

and managing director of Seattle based Pioneer Square Labs

0:43.0

and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.

0:45.0

And I'm David Rosenthal, and I'm an angel investor,

0:48.0

based in San Francisco.

0:50.0

And we are your hosts.

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