"Compet Agreement? Will you actually ask me to sign this? Did you forget that I created the CAA?"

Orwitz returned to Los Angeles, and many young partners such as Richard, Nisita, Kevin Huwen and others came up with an agreement and asked him to sign it.

This agreement is actually not the traditional type of banning employees from leaving their jobs and is not allowed to join the broker industry for a certain number of years. This is because Richard and the others asked for the top lawyers in Hollywood that such an agreement is

It is not easy to establish in court.

Amerika is traditionally a place that encourages freedom, innovation, and hopes that people with entrepreneurial spirit will grow in barbarity and then solve legal problems in their growth process when they grow up.

Therefore, although there are legal precedents in prohibiting competition agreements, they are usually subject to strict scrutiny by judges. Without sufficient reasons, it is very likely that they will be declared invalid by judges.

And this time, the young Turkish group, except for a few who followed Orwitz to Disney, all joined forces to discuss and pass the agreement.

The main content of this agreement is to prohibit three aspects of content. The first is that Orwitz must not disclose CAA's trade secrets, whether they are made public to Disney or companies that may work for in the future.

It is easy to understand that the business secrets of the broker company involve the personal privacy of many customers and the knowledge that some CAA rely on to maintain relationships with studios. If Orwitz wants to set up a new broker company, or let

His men set up a company that he controls remotely. These secrets can be used to threaten current CAA customers and let them switch to their new company.

The second point is trust responsibility. As the founding partner of CAA, Orwitz shall not take the initiative to deliberately poach CAA's customers or deliberately interfere with the cooperation agreement between CAA and its customers.

This is also easy to understand. Orwitz is in a top management position at Disney. No matter what he does, he will easily affect the choice of CAA's celebrity customers. If he hints or explicitly, the celebrity customers will jump to the job.

When they go to a new company, they can get the role of Disney's big movie project, and it is difficult for young people at CAA to resist such an offensive.

The third and most critical point is that the liability for breach of contract and burden of proof of the first two points belongs to Orwitz, not the young partners of CAA. Compared with a top Disney manager, the partners of the broker company can be mobilized.

Not the opponent in resources.

"Of course not, this is an insurance we bought for ourselves, Mr. Orwitz." Richard stood up instead of all the young men and talked with Orwitz about terms.

"Richard, I didn't expect you to stand up at this time..." Orwitz couldn't help but smile bitterly, many young people he had expected to be, in the face of his own deterrence, only the "honest man" Richard Levitt

Fear, being able to come out to face to face with me...

I almost didn't leave this internship agent back then, but when he faced injustice, he dared to speak out for himself. However, those young people who took themselves as role models in life did not dare to stand up at such a critical moment...

"Of course, we have no doubts about your love for CAA, but you don't doubt our love for it, as strong as you. So, in order to protect the CAA brand, we have no choice but to sign this document, business

It's business, but it goes beyond business. It's the belief of us young partners, and it's the most precious legacy you leave to CAA... None of us will want to destroy it, including you..."

Orwitz began to shake his head again. Who would have thought that Richard's sales ability was so outstanding. This sentence was not only for himself, but also for all the young partners present. If he did not agree, then

It is equivalent to violating the values ​​I have been preaching in the company for twenty years - customer first, company second, individual third...

Not only will you be discouraged from the dignity of these people after leaving CAA, but you will also be rejected if you need to ask them for some care and prioritize Disney projects in the future - you don’t take CAA seriously yourself.

, there is no need for us to do anything for you, everyone will do their business.

"Jay, where is Jay Moroni? Have you kicked him out of CAA?" Orwitz thought for a while. The one who works in CAA is the one who looks the most like her, and Jay Moroni is a bit stupid.

young people.

At that time, he could rush into his office without hesitation and ask for a book to read, which means he is prone to impulsiveness and provoked. Later, he scared him away with one sentence, which means he is very afraid of his prestige. Now let him jump out and make him do it for himself.

If you say something good, such young people are easily caught by words.

"Did you fire him because he didn't have a gang with you?" Orwitz looked at Richard. This move was a big shot, and it was also aimed at the other partners present. What Richard said is really

Does it represent the interests of all your young partners? If he becomes the same party as himself, aren’t you afraid of becoming one of the five founders of CAA that year who were squeezed out in advance?

"It seems that I taught you very well, Richard."

Orwitz continues to sow discord with words. It is not a bad thing to leave a way out for yourself. Besides, those important celebrity clients who start an agency company in the future will come, and you will be afraid of me.

Adding this clause is nothing more than being afraid of this.

"Of course not. Jay Moloney just doesn't want to see you, so he doesn't come on purpose." Richard smiled. Jay Moloney was very emotional. After the last time he clashed with Orwitz, he felt afraid.

The other party was embarrassed to escape at the last battle, and this time he didn't want to come to confront Orwitz in person.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fortunately, when Jay Moloney was taking leave, Richard was having a meeting with his partners. The phone was on the hands-free phone, and everyone could hear it clearly.

Richard said this to save face for Jay Moloney, otherwise he would be afraid to face Orwitz, and then he would have no shame to meet people in the company. For a moment, everyone felt that Richard was

Their head-on is pretty good.

"You are the partners on behalf of all CAA partners. Are you here to talk to me about this?" Orwitz failed and had another plan. Although Richard was a good person, Orwitz knew what the agent was thinking.

It's right.

The great contribution of making CAA by himself, and becoming CEO a few years ago would make Ron Mayer, who was always useless, feel very jealous. If Richard Levitt becomes the successor CEO, then these young people are now

What would the Turks think of him?

"Hi..." Richard was a little speechless. Orwitz's skill in controlling people was just like this. At this time, the old-fashioned strong character led the overall situation, and others were in his

The working mode under the wings has come to an end.

Even in recent years, Orwitz has not reduced his time investment in CAA business because he wants to change jobs, and their market share has also declined.

Hollywood's small-cost movies have almost disappeared, and medium-sized studios have closed down in large numbers, leaving only seven majors with global financing capabilities to support the production of some large-scale productions. The production of movies in the entire Hollywood has declined for four or five consecutive years.

The large number of small and medium-sized films are missing, and new actors and new directors are unable to take over, and the business of the agency is also in decline. In the early 1980s, Richard and Nisita can pick up Tom on the streets of New York.

Things like Cruise and Ronald Lee are already hard to happen.

CAA's most direct competitor, William Morris, has accurately captured an industry opportunity. At the time when the shortage of TV drama scripts caused by the screenwriter strike in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they put the business on the

The focus was slightly adjusted to the reality show that was forced out.

Various real human shows and documentary-like shows, such as CBS's Emergency Room Record Show, Fox's Live Police Show, and MTV's Real World Show, these shows do not bring less advertising revenue than celebrity TV series.

Moreover, since most of them are amateurs, they demand that they be weak in income and negotiations with their agents, so much of the growth in William Morris' performance comes from their first step and occupying most of the real people.

A contracted actor for the show.

The emergence of various independent films and pan-Atlantic films dominated by Europe also allowed Orwitz to do the business of getting a big studio alone, and the agents below shared the food and packing plan for celebrity pay commissions

The pattern gradually became dull.

Most agents understand that the current market situation has reached a stage where there is no leader. Everyone is under the roof of CAA. Only by helping each other can they increase their income, rather than competing against each other to compete for Orwitz's "love".

Therefore, on the one hand, in order to adapt to this new competitive situation, and on the other hand, in order to avoid the friction caused by jealousy, Richard, Nisita, Kevin Huwen and others proposed a plan to take turns as rotating CEOs.

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Within CAA, due to the frequent cooperation between celebrities and directors, agents are also divided into different factions. For example, the original Jewish director group, Ronald and Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks faction, and Spielber

A more detached faction like Ge.

On the premise of helping each other, everyone took turns to serve as CEOs. Although this was a little less efficient, it took care of the balance of interests of all parties and gained the support of everyone at once. And most importantly, avoid people like Richard.

With the position of CEO, it becomes the next Orwitz possibility.

After all, Orwitz at that time also won Sean Connery and Sidney Pollack, and then he grew bigger and bigger, from 20% equal partner to the de facto boss of CAA.

"We actually..." Richard was about to explain that after you Orwitz left, our system would be different.

"Richard, Michael..." At this time, Nisita interrupted what he wanted to say. There was no need to say too many unrelated things to a boss who had left. In the future, he knew that the fewer things were in the new CAA, right

The better the new CAA.

"Actually, things are not that complicated. This is just a contract that any agent has to sign after resigning from CAA. You just own the shares. Like Ron Mayer, he has signed his one.

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Nisita is still a little more experienced, and he can see that Orwitz just doesn't want to lose face in front of young people, and just wants to find out the news and bury a few thorns. He doesn't know the answer, and if he guesses randomly, he can also add Orwitz.

The uneasiness.

Sure enough, after hearing that Ron Meyer had signed a similar agreement, Orwitz was a little unable to help it. He and Meyer joined Universal and Disney, and both of them needed to sign an agreement with CAA to sell shares.

, in this way, the new owner can hold a press conference for himself and officially announce the news of the two second-in-commendations joining.

Now that Mayer has signed, he can hold a press conference immediately. He has to overwhelm him in terms of momentum, so he can hold a press conference as well. In this way, the two former partners of CAA have a comparison.

The position who went to Global was just vice president, while the person who went to Disney was president and COO. Meyer also had to report to Bronfman Jr. and reported to the board of directors directly.

As long as the press conferences where they perform their duties are close enough, such as today and tomorrow, the news media is very "normal" and will put them in the news for comparison.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! If it is delayed for a few more days, Mayer will monopolize the news of Hollywood and Wall Street for several days. At that time, all kinds of analysis and in-depth discussion will be

Adding it to Ron Mayer alone gives him a period of time to enjoy the news page for several days.

This is unbearable for a person like Orwitz who is an agent. When a celebrity exposed himself to participate in a big movie project, he was very familiar with such open and secret struggles.

"Now, sign the contract, Michael... we have to call you Mr. Disney's President from now on." Nisita smiled and turned his pen cap away, then handed it to Orwitz's hand, looking tempted,

Just like in the Disney classic animation Snow White, the old woman tricked the princess into eating poisoned apples.

"What if he doesn't matter..." Orwitz still couldn't stand his idea of ​​stealing the limelight, so he took over and signed the contract. The contract was reviewed by lawyers from both parties. The specific area that may be disputed is today Orwitz

Those terms of competition that focus on bargaining.

These small places are indeed not as good as becoming Disney's president and COO one day earlier. After all, after I switched to a larger stage, CAA's brokerage business is just past memories and some conveniences.

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"Ha, Michael, come, this is your press release to join Disney, look..."

Orwitz has completed the signing with Disney and is preparing to debut at a press conference. Eisner also happened to come back from the resort, and Orwitz went to him at Bel Air for $40 million

I bought a luxury house that I haven't been long.

The gift Eisner gave him was this press release, which was published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal respectively after Global Announcement.

Orwitz read it and felt very satisfied. Eisner still respected him very much. He had to read such a manuscript before sending it to major media after he nodded.

"Come on, let's go to the restaurant and open a bottle of champagne to celebrate your joining." Eisner was very enthusiastic and pulled Orwitz to the restaurant in his mansion. This turned out to be the former residence of the president of MGM.

After Sner bought it, he began to renovate it on a large scale. This restaurant can be said to be a combination of tradition and modernity, and is very luxurious.

As soon as I arrived at the restaurant, Eisner went to get champagne and left Orwitz alone at the table. While waiting boredly, Orwitz found that two more people had walked in the restaurant, namely Disney's chief financial officer.

Stephen Bollenbach, and General Counsel Sandy Litwack.

"Hello, I'm Stephen Borenbach. I'm here to tell you, I won't report to you." Stephen Borenbach straight to the point.

Orwitz's hand stretched out quickly retracted like he touched hot food. What does it mean if he didn't report to me? He looked back over the shoulders of the two bastards, and Eisner still had no figure yet.

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