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Introduction
David
Okay, last week I flew to New York to have dinner with Mike Ovitz. We ended up having a very intense and entertaining three-hour conversation. I made a list of things I learned from the dinner, so I'm going to run through some of these ideas. I guess I should back up and tell you how I actually got connected to Ovitz.
We wound up having a very close mutual friend. I was having breakfast with my friend Rick when his phone, which was on the table, rang and displayed "Michael Ovitz." It was like, "Oh, wow." So he picked it up and said, "Hey, I'm actually here with my friend David Senra. He does that podcast you might have heard of—Founders." And then there was a short break.
Then Ovitz said, "I listened to four of them yesterday." So we wound up getting connected. We were already planning on having a meeting and dinner anyway, and I said, as you might know, I do these dinner episodes—I've done one with Charlie Munger, Sam Zell, Brad Jacobs, and John Mackey—and I thought it would be really interesting. Would you be up to doing it? He said yes, so I flew up to see him.