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Chapter 6 Who takes advantage of whom?

The roar of the car engine pulled Lite's thoughts back to the present from half an hour ago.

Looking at the street scenes that were rapidly regressing outside the car window, he kindly reminded: "Mr. Kirkland, as a senior lawyer, I think you should be clear about what kind of punishment you will be subject to speeding downtown."

Johnny Kirkland, who had been venting his dissatisfaction by stomping on the accelerator, just snorted coldly after hearing this.

As a lawyer who has been famous for many years, Kirkland never feels that he is an easily angered person because a person with this personality never lasts for a long time in this industry, but today he is indeed annoyed by Litt, not only because of Litt's previous offense, but also because of Orwitt's attitude towards Litt.

I don’t know what was wrong, but Orwitz actually agreed to invest in helping Li Te establish an agency. Not only was the company’s registrant, but Li Te even handed over the company’s naming rights to Li Te.

As Orwitz's personal lawyer, Kirkland was entrusted to assist Lit in completing the company registration, which was the most unhappy reason for him.

The speed of the car gradually slowed down, but this did not mean that Kirkland was preparing to "reconcile" with Litt.

"You must be very proud now."

"What's the smug?" Lite turned his head blankly. After reminding Kirkland, he continued to think about his own affairs, so he did not listen to Kirkland's words in full.

This casual expression fell into Kirkland's eyes, but it was more like a ridicule.

Calm down! Be sure to be calm!

Kirkland took a deep breath, tried to restrain his efforts, and said to Litt in a calm tone: "Mr. Orwitz is willing to help you. This time it seems that you won, but don't be too proud, because your position in Mr. Orwitz's heart, including Mr. Orwitz's investment in you this time, let's regard this as an investment, but we are not as important as you think."

After serving as Orwitz's personal lawyer for so many years, Kirkland believes that he knows Orwitz better than Litt.

Originally, Orwitz spent 20 years to win the country, and then only 1/3 of his energy could make CAA invincible, but Orwitz was unwilling to do so. He needed new challenges. Because as a performing arts agency, no matter how good the CAA is and how large the scale is, it is only a few hundred agents with annual profits of hundreds of millions of dollars, which cannot be compared with Hollywood giants with tens of thousands of employees and annual income of tens of billions of dollars.

Just at this time, Orwitz's long-time friend, Disney Chairman Eisner, sent an olive branch, asking Orwitz to be Disney's president, who is fully responsible for all Disney's media and entertainment industries.

After considering it for a while, Orwitz decided to accept the challenge. In August 1995, he officially announced that he would resign from all positions in CAA, transfer all shares of CAA, and then become Disney President.

When the news came out, the whole of Hollywood was in an uproar.

From entering William Morris, the largest talent agency at that time, to later founding his own innovative performing arts agency (CAA), Michael Orwitz has always been the most mysterious and awesome name in Hollywood for more than 20 years. No matter what he is planning, the industry will hold its breath and watch secretly. This time, his role as president of Disney made other Hollywood giants exclaim "The Wolf is Coming."

But just when everyone thought Orwitz would make a big move in the position of Disney president, the next development surprised everyone. After less than 15 months as Disney president, Orwitz and Eisner's differences in business philosophy have reached a point where they are incompatible. Orwitz will face the embarrassing situation of being "driven out" Disney at any time.

From the peak of power to the homeless homeless vagabond, this is something Orwitz cannot accept.

If Orwitz is willing to return to CAA at this time, the "young Turks" will definitely not refuse, and they are even willing to give up the position of the company's president, but for Orwitz, this is really a shameless thing.

He could not return to CAA, and he was not good at changing careers in other fields. Just when he was extremely confused, Lite's appearance gave him a new choice.

Set up a new brokerage firm and then challenge the CAA you created by yourself.

This idea excited Orwitz, but he was also a very rational person. As the founder of CAA, he knew very well how indestructible the CAA fortress was. Even if he came back, it would be very difficult to challenge CAA's dominance.

If you are unwilling to accept it but are unwilling to end up easily, the best way is to find a spokesperson.

So Li Te picked up this "big bargain".

If Lite knew what Kirkland was thinking at the moment, he would definitely sneer. Now it seems that he has taken advantage of Orwitz, but in the future, who can still take advantage of whom!

You should know that although the Artists Management Group (AMG) in history will be established next year, the company has not lasted for two years in Orwitz.

Although at the beginning of AMG, Orwitz promised not to dig out CAA's customer resources, and CAA executives also thought that both sides could live in peace, in less than a year, CAA President Lovett discovered that Orwitz was secretly calling many CAA customers.

The "Young Turks" saw that Orwitz's tiger was not kept in their words and immediately turned against each other. They gave a special notice to all the CAA signing artists: CAA, or Orwitz, please choose one immediately. If anyone chooses Orwitz, they will never think of becoming a CAA customer again.

This trick works very well. Most celebrities choose to stay, and CAA is even more solid as a rock.

After the poaching failed, Orwitz held on for another year and finally transferred AMG, and he completely withdrew from the performing arts brokerage industry.

But now, all this will change at Lite's hands.

Lit would not explain these to Kirkland. Besides, he had already been labeled as arrogant in Kirkland's mind. Once this prejudice is formed, it cannot be eliminated in just a few words.

Litt was not worried about being misunderstood by Kirkland. He just felt a little headache when he thought that he might have to deal with Kirkland frequently in the future.

After "teaching Liter a lesson", Kirkland felt much better. He parked his car at the door of a hotel. Because Liter is currently in a "homeless" state, Ovitz specially helped Liter book a room in the hotel.

As soon as the car stopped, Li Te pushed the door and got out. He had no intention of saying hello to Kirkland, so he walked straight towards the glass revolving door in the hall.

"Wait, you seem to have forgotten one thing." Kirkland called him from behind.

Lit turned his head, looked at Kirkland who stretched his head out of the car window, and curled his lips and said, "Mr. Kirkland is not trying to remind me that I forgot to say goodbye to you, right?"

Kirkland snorted from his nostril, "I'm not as bored as you think. Mr. Orwitz asked me to help you register a company. I just want to know what name you are going to register this company."

"Artist Management Group." Lite said the name almost without thinking.

Out of some bad taste, Litt chose the same name as the agency established by Orwitz in later generations, but Kirkland didn't know about it. He repeated the name several times in his mind, then frowned and asked, "Are you sure you want to register a company with this name?"

"Is there any problem?"

Kirkland originally wanted to say that the name was too big, but when he thought that the investor behind the company was Orwitz, he took the sarcastic words back to his mouth.

"No problem, I just want to confirm."

After saying that, Kirkland started the car and prepared to leave.

The doorman had already helped Liter open the revolving door, but Liter suddenly turned around and looked at Kirkland who had not yet driven away, and said loudly: "I know, in your eyes, I may be just a trivial little character now, but one day the facts will prove how important I am! And I firmly believe that this day will not be too far away!"

(The new book is a small seedling, collection and recommendation are nutrients for growth, I hope everyone will take care of it!)
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