#381 I Had Dinner With Michael Ovitz

我与迈克尔·奥维茨共进晚餐

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2025-03-07

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What I learned from having an intense and fun 3 hour dinner with Michael Ovitz.
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  • Something that Michael Ovitz had in common with people like Steve Jobs

  • and Jeff Bezos is the belief that you must find and work with extraordinary people.

  • Even when Ovitz was a young man, he starts his company, he has no money,

  • he makes a list of people that he eventually wanted to work with.

  • And it was the best of the best.

  • And even though at the time it felt like a pipe dream, he actually makes that list into a reality.

  • And the importance of working with the very best people.

  • There's actually a great observation about this from Steve Jobs,

  • and he says that the key observation was that I noticed that

  • that dynamic range between what an average person could accomplish

  • and what the best person could accomplish was 50 to 1 or 100 to 1.

  • So given that you're well advised to build a team that pursues the A plus players,

  • that's exactly what Steve Jobs did.

  • That's exactly what Michael Ovitz did.

  • And it is exactly what Ramp did.

  • Ramp has the most talented technical team in their industry.

  • Becoming an engineer at Ramp is nearly impossible.

  • In the last 12 months, they hired only 0.23% of the people that applied.

  • So that means when your business is using Ramp,

  • you now have access to top tier technical talent