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Introduction
I always told our agents, make your clients think they're your friends, but remember that they're not, yet it would be my clients who would stay loyal for the most part and my friends who would betray me, Jay Moloney, the agent I thought of as a son and as my eventual successor would join the agency's posse of young Turks who disown me after I left CAA. Michael Eisner, my great friend who ran Disney, would hire me as his #2, then publicly humiliate me and fire me after 14 months.
And Ron Meyer, the blood brother I started CAA with, would leave to take a big job at Universal after I negotiate for both of us to go there and then disparage me all over town for 20 years. I made it my life's work to understand people, to grasp what made them tick. I've been certain that I was too wary to misplace my trust and too smart to be duped.