America's Road to Wealth

Charlie Brown's Pizza.

The owner, Charlie Brown, carried a ten-inch grilled chicken pizza and walked towards the customers sitting by the window in the store.

America's favorite pizza flavor is grilled chicken pizza.

In stores that sell pizza, this is often the best-selling variety.

It is definitely a standard feature in many fast food restaurants, as popular as egg fried rice or fried noodles in China.

Place the grilled chicken pizza on the guest's table.

Charlie Brown heard the youngest and handsomest of the four guests say thank you to him.

This was his regular customer. Charlie Brown shrugged, You're welcome.

After saying that, the old man left.

It's ten o'clock in the morning, one of the busiest times for the store.

The store has hired four workers.

Charlie Brown is still used to doing it himself when it comes to baking and making pizza.

He didn't want to ruin his store's reputation.

The young and handsome guest was none other than Abel, who came here to eat with Anne Hathaway, Michael Levine, and another old white man.

.Two Mr. Michaels. Abel said with a smile:

“You should be relatively familiar with each other.

So I'll just introduce myself, I'm Abe Smith.

Michael Levine glanced at the old white man sitting next to him.

Michael Levine is certainly familiar with this old white man.

The old white man's name is Michael Ovitz. More than ten years ago, when Michael Levine first entered CAA.

Michael Ovitz was not only his boss, but also the teacher who trained him.

It can be said that Michael Ovitz is Michael Levine’s guide on the road to becoming an agent.

Levin, long time no see, hello.

Michael Ovitz, founder of CAA, former Disney president, and current founder and chairman of Artist Management Group, smiled and said hello to his former subordinates.

Michael Levine responded quickly: Hello, Mr. Ovitz. Long time no see. The last time I saw you was Christmas last year.

You remember it quite clearly? Michael Ovitz replied with a smile, and then looked at Abel curiously:

Mr. Smith. I'm curious now. You called Levin and me here. Did you have any business for us?

Michael Ovitz would come over, and it was David Mellon who approached him.

He said he wanted to do business with him.

Michael Ovitz after being kicked out of Disney and CAA three years ago.

He was very unhappy.

Later he founded his own new company, American Artist Management Group.

AMG for short, its business completely overlaps with CAA.

It's an art agency.

But this time and that time.

Today's Hollywood entertainment industry is completely different from when he founded CAA.

It has been three years since the Artist Management Group was established, but its management has not been very good.

Let alone challenge CAA to become one of the top five brokerage companies in the United States, or the sixth largest.

It’s been three years and it’s not even in the top ten.

Obviously, Michael Ovitz cannot replicate the rise of CAA again.

Just like he said, The entertainment industry is my favorite place, and I am willing to give everything I have here.

As a successful and billionaire, he suffered serious losses from all investments he made in other industries.

Although AMG, the Artist Management Group, is not in very good shape right now.

But at least you won't lose money, and there is still some hope.

The entertainment industry is an industry he is familiar with.

He is already in his fifties and cannot change his career even if he wants to.

He doesn't want to retire.

We can only continue to work hard to manage AMG.

At this time, people from Wall Street (David Mellon) came to him.

Michael Ovitz, who is looking for investment everywhere and wants to expand the artist management group, is naturally very excited.

He came over.

Looking at the young man in front of him, Michael Ovitz is not from the financial world.

But he also knew that the young man in front of him was a rising star on Wall Street.

Wall Street was deceived by Hollywood, and it basically has no interest in Hollywood anymore.

Now Abel came to him. He was curious, has Wall Street become interested in Hollywood again?

That's right.

Please come over here. I really want to do business with you.

Abel smiled.

But strictly speaking, I want to hire you two to work for me.

Michael Levine reacted okay to hearing him say that.

A bit of a surprise, but not a huge one.

Michael Ovitz laughed outright.

This man, who was already a very important figure in Hollywood more than 20 years ago, smiled and said:

Hahaha~ Mr. Smith, are you kidding me?

I know very little about Wall Street, and my financial knowledge is limited to IPOs and funds.

Even if you are willing to hire a layman like me, I personally am not willing to delay your business.

I will definitely make you lose even your underwear in the stock market.

This is actually a very polite thing to say.

If it had been in the past, when he was still the chairman of CAA or the president of Disney, he would probably have replied -

Are you worthy?

Back then, he was also one of the top giants in Hollywood, or the entire American entertainment industry.

Now he has fallen, but his connections, property, and abilities are still there.

His previous experience has made him a rich man with a net worth of more than one billion US dollars. Strictly speaking, he is not short of money at all.

Why should I work for a young man?

It was still Wall Street that he was unfamiliar with.

Unless you add money!

When did I say I wanted to hire you to work on Wall Street?

Abel said: If you don't listen, what is the name of the company I want to hire you to work for?

Michael Ovitz frowned, and he couldn't help but look at Michael Levine.

The latter shrugged and said that he didn't know what medicine Abel was selling in his pocket.

You guys should take a look at this first.

Abel took out two folded A4 papers from his pocket and placed them on the table.

Michael Levine and Michael Ovitz each took one and opened it to read.

Michael Levine read softly: Equity conversion agreement? What? Mr. Barry Crown sold his 4.5% CAA shares to Smith Capital?

He raised his head in surprise and looked at Abel.

Michael Ovitz put down the A4 paper in his hand and picked up the one Michael Levine was looking at just now.

After reading it, Ovitz raised his eyebrows, Barry Crown's 4.5%, TGO Capital's 3.36%.

Mr. Smith, you now hold a total of 7.86% of CAA's shares.

Hearing what he said, Levin quickly picked up another one and looked at it. It was also a copy of the equity conversion agreement.

That's right. In addition, I am also looking for the 1.5% held by General Motors. The other party is already interested in selling it and is currently negotiating the price.

There is also 4% of Williams Capital, which is being contacted.

If everything succeeds, the shareholding ratio will exceed 10%.

Abel said easily.

Michael Ovitz, who has been in shopping malls for a long time, was silent for a few seconds. He looked at Abel:

Mr. Smith, what do you mean?

Help me acquire CAA.

Abel finally got straight to the point and revealed the real purpose of inviting these two people here today.

After success.

Mr. Michael Ovitz, I would like to hire you as President of CAA.

And Mr. Michael Levine is the general manager.