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Ari Emanuel

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“Thing to see that happen in your life from a kid from me that they didn't think I was supposed to go to college and that this life has happened for me and my parents were incredible. All those things collectively are the kindness that has happened and there's plenty of times I was not deserving of it. I definitely was not because I didn't realize how you're supposed to act and get off the field”
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“The kindest thing anybody's ever given me is trust. Clients trust me with their biggest dreams. Crazy. When Tyler Perry comes to me and says, here's what I want to do or Marty or Larry David. That's an incredible gift of kindness. And then same thing with Egon backing my play multiple times. And then I would just say to you, I have now in my life a great life. I never realized it before. I was just on the field and I have a great second wife, Sarah Statman here. He's got a great fashion business, Dod. And I think I have great brothers, but I have four incredible kids. And that I'm a lucky guy. I love them and they love me. And as your kids get older, it's crazy to have these conversations with these things that are now adults. And they say to you and do things that are just beyond your imagination. And it is the nicest.”
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“I collect African American artists, mainly American, but now Africa and other places from about 1940 to now. I don't know. It just spoke to me. I have no idea why. So it was from Sam Gilliam, Bob Thompson to Kara Walker, Mark Bradford, to Noah Davis. He passed away. Incredible artist. And I just, I love it. And I've been doing it now for 17 years, 18 years, in this specific area. And so I'm just deep and unrelenting.”
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“But I want to be right. It is a benchmark. And these people should make a lot of money because I want them to. That's the most exciting thing.”
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“Because Silver Lake just wanted Endeavor to be an agency. So he was one selling down the events and a bunch of other assets that we wanted to buy at TKO to pay down the debt. And live is where I wanted to be. So I was like, fuck it. I'll just raise a bunch of money. And the good thing is, which I felt really good about, I actually did feel really good. This crazy idea I had, people like saying, yeah, you're right. So now I want to make them a lot of money, which I've done for a lot of people. Now I'll make myself a lot more money. Not that I care, but.”
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“Most exciting for me. I've started this new business called Mari trying to make that into the next Live Nation there in music or build this new company having learned because I'm not a PE firm, but I'm a company, but I've learned all these different skill sets.”
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“Going to take a while. So we have a little bit of time, but we have to still be thinking what the fuck are we telling our kids?”
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“And I'm not sure I know everybody's saying it's coming very fast. There's a numerator and a denominator here in the United States. I think it's just us in China, really. But I don't know if it's the numerator or the denominator, but there's this thing called energy and energy delivery that I'm not sure yet is there for it to be in the next at full AGI capacity.”
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“In four months, I'm 65. Who gives a shit about me? I have 30 year olds. I have a 23 year old that works at Apple. I've heard him speak about his kids. That's hard. What are we telling them? What are they supposed to be doing?”
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“I have two years. So we're talking about AI, and he goes to me, All right, do you have a dog? I said, yeah. Well, here's AI. AI is you, and you're the dog. I said, I don't like that. He goes, that's what's happening. That's going to happen. Well, you and I have kids. I haven't figured out, which, you know, as a parent, we have to think about where my kids sit. That makes me nervous. Because I'm like, I'm over the hill.”
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“Do you have kids I'm worried for my kids. Didn't tell you this, so I'm sitting there, I'm having my normal every six month meeting, lunch, dinner with Elon. And we're talking about AI. He said this to me. He goes, live cannot be disrupted. I said, okay.”
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“They're all testing new Kim Kardashian as Mark Wahlberg is, Dwayne Johnson is. They're all looking at it and figuring out how to play in it. Not all of them. Aaron Sorkin isn't. Larry David isn't. But they're just great creators. Marty Scorsese isn't. He's just a great creator. But there's some actors, writers, directors that are looking at it and trying to figure out where they sit in it. And I think the first thing they all have to do, they have to start playing with it. And they're all starting to play with it.”
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“They must see something. And the only way it pays off, unless I'm wrong now, George Gilder would scream at me. He goes, every technology has created more jobs. This is the only technology at this level of spend you have to be taking jobs. Jobs have to go away. And then the government's going to have to pick them up and we're going to be more efficient. And I don't understand the math. I'm not smart enough to understand the math. You know what I do know how to put on a fight and put on an event. That's what I know.”
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“He has 800 million subs. Let's just say he does 14 billion in revenue. We'll probably lose 5 billion. Do you understand it? I'm definitely not as smart as you or any of these investors.”
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“Health, smoking, and drinking. I feel bad for my children. Unrelenting articles, conversation, it's horrible. But that's the job of being a parent.”
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“Well, I think it's good actually in the following way for us. I'm just talking about our businesses. The more data, the more you can't cheat. And I think what's going to happen, you'll have an AI company come in and look at all the data. And you're going to understand, you're going to triangulate and understand there's something happening over here with this picture and you're going to look at video and it's going to be like, boom. So it'll be harder to cheat. Not that people won't try. I think it helps actually the engagement. Now, do I think gambling is good as a different conversation I don't gamble. Do I think gambling is good? You know how I come at you hard? Imagine what I do to my kids on gambling.”
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“Yeah, it depends on when this thing caps out. We just saw a big input of money, which is betting. That market will increase and the amount of money they pay will increase. Premium ticket will go up and ticketing will go up.”
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“Shit will change. But the price of sports for the end user is going to be more. Therefore, then there's going to be tears at Netflix, which the sports tier, you pay $15, and they're going to have to make a decision when do they go direct. It depends the leagues.”
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“Well, they'll just change. They'll go from PE firms owning 10%. 35. And instead of they can only take a billion dollars of debt out, they can take $2 billion.”
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“That will be the first iteration of this. You never know. You might find a movie that you like or a documentary you like and you send it out to your subs. And then there's multiple ways you can monetize that. Maybe you turn that into a book.”
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“Oprah had Dr. Phil. She sponsored people, and then she took him out in the syndication on the station groups. You're going to find a young you, and maybe it's in medicine, or maybe it's in something that interests you. And you're going to bring them into the fold with your sponsors, your distribution, and everything. You're going to take a piece of it. And maybe there's a product that comes off of it and you're going to own a piece and he's going to own a piece. And then you're going to figure out maybe I need my own sponsorship marketing team internally. So you're going to become your Oprah. You've become Oprah.”
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“Going to be a lot more of them. And I actually think what I said to you, I think that you're seeing it now. Marketing companies are going to podcasters and streamers and marketing with them or giving them brands and giving them ownership to sponsor them and market them. And sometimes they sponsor them and sometimes they ask them to take equity and same thing is going to happen with content. We talked about this. I think the cost is going to go down to zero or very close. And Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg, Dana White, Pat McAfee, they're all going to become their own channels. I do believe actually, I don't know if that's in two years or in seven years. So then representation has to change its infrastructure, like we changed when we took over sports to be able to handle that conversation with regard to licensing, marketing, all that stuff.”
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“Meeting ends, it's over, and we're walking down Wiltshire. And he goes, Well, that's over. I said, No, that's not over. This is happening. A year and a half later, two years later, it was back on the table. But that was a fuck up because it just pushed us way, way back. But I just, I thought DEF COM, I was so pissed.”
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“But we had a bad meeting, Patrick and Ill, with Irv Weintraub, Jim Wyatt, and Dave Worschafter. And I went nuts. I was playing the chess match out and let me get to the end. And I actually went talking about the negotiation. I screamed at them. We're sitting at a table like this at the Beverly House Hotel. I went nuts. I said, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. We could buy you. We're two inches big. And it's William Morris because we were more profitable. I said, you know nothing about business. And I go fucking nuts. And Patrick, to his credit, he knows when I hit the DEF CON 4 or 5, you just get the fuck out of the way.”
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“I fuck up all the thank God Mark Shapiro's in my life and egots in my life. I think the biggest fuck up truly because we're building the business and you pick bad people.”
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“Fucking shit up, you don't really learn that much for doing good things. I said, and you've got to permit the fuck ups. And the problem is, I said, I started my business 31 years ago. It's my name. Your father started your business and now it's your name. You just won't let anybody fuck up. What's the worst thing that could happen if it fucks up? Is the business going away? No. So let them fuck up. That thought process, not a lot of people have that run companies.”
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“I just said this to one of the companies that I run bear Jackson and Craig Jackson wants to step back. And I said to him, you know, you're never stepping back. He goes, what are you talking about? I said, well, here's what I did. Let's go private. Richard Whites and Christian Merrick are going to take over the business. And they're going to do some really great things and they're going to fuck shit up. And you know the only way they're going to learn?”
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“But my brother understands it used to be when you were CEO, just bilateral. Now it's multilateral. I don't think anybody looks at that board better than him in politics and in global issues. And he learned from incredible people. Bill Clinton was incredible. Obama was incredible. Worked out their agenda. At details, you can ask him about the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania issues and how they handle that. He's at an inch. I'm at an inch in my business. He's at an inch and he understand then what that means for the congressional races, what that means for the Senate, the messaging that you have to do and how to stay on message. And Zeke, he is just hysterical. I mean, I love him. He's a bioethicist. I think he's incredible thinking about medicine and he loves it. So I just love him.”
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“When you talk to my brother Ram about politics, and you can talk to him about a lot of other things, but when it comes to his metier, and we're not talking about just domestic politics, we're talking about global politics, how to handle allies in Asia to combat China or what to do on Israel or any subtext. I'm going to boast about my brother Ram. When you look at the potential field of potential candidates for presidents and there's Gretchen Whitmore, I know I know Josh. I know a lot of these guys and they're all very qualified on a global basis. And he is as relentless and as driven as I am in what I do, was in two White Houses, was the whip in Congress, was the mayor of a big city, and understands everything going on in one of the biggest, most important areas in the world for us Asia and had galvanized and his responsibility as Ambassador galvanized that region to combat China. There's nobody more qualified. Whether that makes him future candidate, I have no idea.”
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“All over Europe. I went to Spain for our tennis business all over learned all the players. That's another place when I got done. I was physically. Because I was then flying back on weekends, and it was crazy. And then I represented writers, directors, actors. Plus, I had to do that. So that was when it all happened.”
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“This is where Egon was a great teacher. He helped us think through because we knew we were going after IMG. And then once we had IMG, I knew instinctually Patrick took over the college football business that they had and I moved to the UK and I took over IMG. And that's how we split the baby. And nobody was telling me I had to move to the UK. I just realized, basically, and I just spent $2.4 billion. You really fucking get your ass to the UK and understand that business. And none of those people wanted to stay because they didn't want us to win. IMG didn't want us to win. They wanted somebody else to win. They wanted Chernit's grip to win. And this is where I learned a lot from EGON in this negotiation. He says, I think that churn in, they were going to pay, I think it was $1.9 billion. And he said, we're paying 2-4. I said, 2-4. Why don't we pay 2-1? He goes, we're going to make it so they can't say no and they can't go back because they don't want us. And he was 100% right. Pay 2.4. We get it. And then I realized this is my money. Time to move. Family stayed in Rhode Island and LA. I moved for...”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So here's what happened. They were in trouble. They just were losing clients and financially in trouble, and they all hate each other, and they knew they didn't have good leadership. And we could just keep them putting out bad press on them and taking agents and taking clients. It took seven years to do that. And then we just pitted board members against them and brought them on our side because we actually treated them well. We actually did. And then when the vote came before the merger, you guys now have to get rid of Jim Ye because he's a disaster and the CFO, all their hands went up because they realized, wait a second, these guys are good guys and we were. So even before the merger closed, they got rid of them and then it just all happened. And then that led to you gun coming into my life. Teddy had gotten sick and passed away. Teddy Forceman going after IMG. And it was the best deal I've ever made.”
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“The greatest deal I ever made was quote unquote merging with William Morris, $44 million, paid out the CFO and Jim Wyatt. They never thought we were going to write a check for $20 million and have the votes to fire them. Patrick Litel and I did that, got the deal done and the merger done, I think, in a year. And they had a horrible culture, so everybody hated each other. And we just played the chess match on their side and then took over the company and brought in Silver Lake.”
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“And you're standing in the way of where, because I've already played the chess match out. If I get this, this, and this, and here's what happens. You're standing in the way of my chess match. How to be”
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“I don't know if it can be reduced. That's when I was constantly on the field. I was always the first one. I was always shooting. I was always in a fight. I've gotten bigger, there's a lot more dancing. I was a pretty ugly fighter though. I mean, I was just constantly angry. Pissed off”
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“There's so much nuance to that. Sometimes certain people, it's just a fight, you're just aggressive. Like, okay, we're in a battle. Certain people in certain negotiations and everybody feels as you're in a dance and you're trying to get them and you just have to hang in there and do the dance till we get to the end of the song. And it's not a battle. I mean, I've been in screaming matches like, okay, fuck you. I know you need it. You know I need it. We're firing guns. We're shooting. So I like the second one better. And that's just about charm and that's just about how you have to play. Sometimes you got to get mad. It takes time. Somebody was asking me, what's the art? It is so complicated”
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“You know, when you're making a deal and they're all different, people have said this both sides have to feel good. Your job is to make sure the other side, whether it's true or not, feels good. That's not easy”
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“And then run our lives, so they're pretty normal kids. And I'm not sitting there trying to always help them. I make an introduction and then it's their job. Even though they hate, they would tell you, my eldest son, Noah, it's one of my favorite moments. We're flying somewhere and he goes, I just want to be normal. I said, who the fuck wants to be normal? Normal sucks. And I said, What the fuck is normal? Normal. What is that? I don't even know what that is.”
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“I got a daughter that works at a WWE. I got a son that's working for Rick Caruso, hopefully Knockwood. He runs for governor. And then my son is in the business. He's a producer. And the other one works at Apple. And they have had unbelievable luxury. I think if you ask people, I hope if you ask people, they're pretty normal kids. Because one, they weren't over programmed. I wasn't a helicopter father. Their mother wasn't a helicopter mother. The summers, they ran around in Rhode Island and played golf and played tennis. And if they did stupid shit, they got punished.”
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“Jay Z doesn't know there's a lot of ways to get to the top. And I think one of the things I always talk about, we as humans, we can at least see greatness and how they do it and then adapt it or learn something there and take that learning and keep on evolving. But I think it's always important to learn from history as if rhymes and then take things and use them in your own life. And that's why I'm doing it.”
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“I don't believe in legacy. You know, I don't believe that business people have legacies. I think Elon will have a legacy. I think Jeff Beasles will have a legacy. I think Steve Jobs has a legacy. Probably mostly its presidents, leaders, maybe some actors. But if you asked Person on the street, Lucille Ball, you wouldn't know. But I do think there's characteristics of those four people that are important to know about. Like, how do they get there? And are there patterns? And as we just said, we just did a rush more on the 90s of music with Jimmy IVEN and Rick Rubin, who are two guys that should be as producers on Rushmore, in my opinion. And Rick Rubin talks about how Eminem, he constantly writes his lyrics. He's writing all the time.”
2025-11-19 · Invest Like the Best · Ari Emanuel - The Anti-AI Bet - [Invest Like the Best, EP.448] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing SpaceX. He's building it, but he was sleeping there on two hours sleep. He needs that in his life. Even though he hates it at times, because I remember him calling me and he was so upset with Tesla and what should he do with it? And we would have conversations. But he wills things with sheer brains and power and guts and endurance to make them. And that's his superpower. Because it gives, in a weird way, even though it's, I think, emotionally brutal on him, taking all the punches and feeling that, it also does give him a huge amount of energy and emotion satisfaction”
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“Nobody like them. I remember it was 08. I'm having Thanksgiving at my house with my brother Ram, who's in the Obama administration. He was the chief of staff. Elon's a friend and world's falling off a cliff. So we're in California. I said, hey, can we come down to see SpaceX and Tesla? Yeah. Now, the president's bailing out car companies. Elon, because I know it. Tesla's in trouble because there's cars backed up that have to be fixed. He's starting a new car company. He's sleeping there like he did at Twitter, SpaceX. He just will not stop. He walks with my brother, shows him SpaceX. This is at the beginning. Oh, wait”
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“Just how much technology was from one to four or one to three, I don't remember, was unbelievable. And what the hand could do. It does what you and I do. And then he showed me a couple of them that could fight and throw punches and kicks and the balance and the pushing unbelievable. So if I'm a betting man, first of all, if I'm a betting man, I'm better on that dude. I bet I'm on him on SpaceX, XAI, Twitter.”
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“Well, I saw the three or four generations of the hand. I came up to him and said, I want to do UFC fights with Marobats. That's one of the things we started talking about. We just had a fight in China. I sent him to see some of the robots there to see if we could then do a fight.”
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“I got some big investments called TKO. I'm betting on myself. I'm not smart enough now. I have bonds. I'm not smart enough to know. I believe in Elon Musk.”
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“What he wants at a balance sheet, he sees a different language than most dudes and sees the value proposition and has been Not 30% right, 70% right. That's fucking rare.”
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“But he does all those. It's really incredible. And then he learns from it, adapts. I don't know anybody, there are probably people on par with him. I don't know a lot of them. He has a point of view on industries. Like he came after me. He was a tech guy. Here's where I think the business is going, which matched up with mine, content, et cetera. But then the superpower, probably one of the best financial engineers I've ever seen of all these guys. It's not even close.”
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“You know, the great thing about him is he continues to want to learn. He's a guy that's made a lot of money. He takes a lot of big risks, but he's smart about them in his calculation. Unlike me, Eminem writes all the time songs. He writes, writes, writes, writes, writes beforehand. And then when he gets in there, he pulls his Jay-Z, this is what Rick Rubin told me. He doesn't write any of his lyrics. They're about to start. He comes back in, tune hits, he does the rap. He's instinctual but incredible. Egon does unbelievable analysis. And I saw it in Artake Private. I see it when he goes after a company. He's relentless when he wants something. And he takes criticism for a guy at his level, PE guy, as good as he is, taking criticism and listening to it and absorbing it and then adapting with it. Incredible. I've never seen that. Most of these guys, they don't know, go fuck yourself.”
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“If I'm going to be involved in something, it matters to me, so therefore I'm going to take it to the point where I can get it done.”
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