Michael Ovitz: evaluation

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…Okay. But there was no way to make everybody happy. All I could see, frankly, was the agency disintegrating. I like to think I made the right decision because unlike the decision Lew made where MCA disintegrated, CAA is still going strong today. They've done a great job in the core agency business. They didn't expand it beyond that, but that's okay. That's their prerogative. But I think the guys have done a pretty good job. It's not what I would have done, but it doesn't matter. It's not my company. But I still take pride that 45 years later, it’s still in business. Good for them. I can't think of any other companies we've covered on this show in the 200+ that you really were a true family business. It was a partnership, it was an LLC.…

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