You’ll hear his name whispered in every agency hallway. He built CAA from a phone and a Rolodex and made every agent since try to copy his playbook.
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You know his companies (Paramount, Fox, Expedia) but maybe not the man who built half of modern media while terrifying everyone in the process. Before there was streaming there was Barry Diller.
He also basically invented power lunches.
Pixar’s quiet architect, Ed Catmull turned creativity into a system that could scale (without killing the magic). Creativity, Inc. isn’t a business book so much as a study in how ideas survive contact with reality.
“The MBA of Music”
You’ll find his advice scribbled on notepads. Matt Abrahams has spent his career decoding how to think on your feet when your mind goes blank. Think Faster, Talk Smarter is the field guide for anyone who’s ever wished for the right words (right now).
Iger is still the ceo of Disney! He bought Pixar when no one thought Disney could make a good movie again. Then he brought in Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox
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She was one of the first to flip the script and builg an audience first, then launch a brand. Emily Weiss turned Into The Gloss from a blog into Glossier, proving media led brands were real.
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Back to the OG media, magazines, the book is the memoir of Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity Fair starting in 1992. “Carter…planted a flag in Los Angeles with the legendary Vanity Fair Oscar party” and honestly, the stories from that era are just as over the top as you’d think.
Discovery, SiriusXM, and Formula One, John Malone spent decades rewriting the business of bandwidth. Born to Be Wired traces the career of the man who saw the future of media
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Sick in the Head collects Judd Apatow’s decades of conversations with the people who shaped him from Seinfeld to Sandler
She started in Chicago improv basements and ended up running SNL and creating 30 Rock. Along the way, she redefined what power and humor could look like on screen.