Episode · a16z Podcast · 2018-09-25
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: New Upstarts in an Old Industry
with Michael Ovitz (@michaelovitz), Ben Horowitz (@bhorowitz), and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) When Michael Ovitz co-founded the Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), he turned a number of the entertainment industry's well-entrenched traditions on their head.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a classic science fiction techno-thriller about a theme park populated with resurrected dinosaurs that ultimately turn on their creators.
Discussed“The good news is we’ve got Cathy Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Crichton with a detailed book that’s going to be a best-seller about dinosaurs, and we've got a screenplay and it’s going to cost this much money. Well, we own it, and you don’t. Now take those six to eight other studios that don’t get that phone call—they're not”
