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#53 Who Is Michael Ovitz?

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How to Become an Agent in 120 Days

Almost everyone at William Morris started in the company's mare room. It could take three years to become a junior agent and four more to start signing your own clients as a senior agent. And more than 80% of the trainees washed out along the way. The way you got ahead at WMA was nepotism. Everybody was somebody's nephew it was an old soft corrupt place I didn't know anybody so I needed another way to stand out.

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