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#676: David Maisel of Marvel Studios Fame — Never-Before-Heard Tales of Hollywood Dealmaking, The Art of Aiming Big, Lessons from Power Broker Michael Ovitz, Combining Business Smarts with Street Smarts, The Making (and Importance) of Iron Man, Selling to Disney for $4 Billion, and Much More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Importance of Tenacity

The idea, by the way, of Marvel or any IP holder making their own $100 million plus movie was revolutionary. I wanted Marvel to keep 100% of the upside because also I was one of the largest individual owners at that time with my stock options. That was a huge hurdle to get over having the correct financing that would work. And no deal is easy. They tried to renegotiate and make us put up a third of the budget some other way. The word tenacity is about those hurdles you just mentioned. It was tough."

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