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Ariel Emanuel

lines on the record: 55
first: 2025-10-22
most recent: 2025-10-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“And a crazy thing happened. I got hit by a car and I realized life was not a dress rehearsal. You know, you can't just sit around and think. It's going to figure itself out. So I just after 18 months of surgery, rehab surgery, I said, I want to be on my own and go for it. And so we started this company called Endeavor in 1995 on my birthday, March 29th.”
2025-10-22 · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Ariel Emanuel: UFC, WWE, Hollywood and the future of live entertainment · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Way, way, way before that, I started in New York with a kind of guy in the theater business by the name of Robbie Lance. After six months, I realized kind of the business. I had just moved back from Europe where I had been playing around. My father told me to come back. He was cutting off my bank account. And I went into the mailroom and I was making 15 cents a mile How I made my living dropping in the mail room, dropping packages off, became an agent, and then I went to this company Intertalent, which was a small boutique that had started as a spinoff of some of the big guys. After three years, I think it was, they sold, they broke the company up. And I went to this company called ICM, which recently CA bought.”
2025-10-22 · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Ariel Emanuel: UFC, WWE, Hollywood and the future of live entertainment · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then we could extract more value with site fees and all the other tricks that we have. And so we bought them and people thought at the time we were crazy with IMG. And then they thought we were crazy with the UFC and it turned out we made the right position and then we merged it. And we just are on the field a lot. So we get to kind of move things around.”
2025-10-22 · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Ariel Emanuel: UFC, WWE, Hollywood and the future of live entertainment · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We could look at companies that we represented or people or things, and then we could move them the thought process to an ownership position because we could extract greater value because we were global. And if a company was localized but had a global possibility, we could extract a great deal of value. And as we're negotiating deals between IMG, negotiating all sports rights on an international basis, we added content to that and then we got out of it. We sold that business for a billion dollars. We had a very big playing field. And so we just started moving stuff to ownership from live events to sports. So we represented the WWE. We represented UFC. We represented bull riding and we realized, you know, if we got involved, we could make all the broadcast deals. We could do all the marketing deals.”
2025-10-22 · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Ariel Emanuel: UFC, WWE, Hollywood and the future of live entertainment · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know I started out almost over 30 years ago representing writers, writer, director, actors, then had a vision for where entertainment was going, started, you know, merged quote unquote with William Morris. And then bought IMG and then realized half my life was representation, half my life was ownership. Almost like, I mean, I don't know what you're investing. I know that you're one of the largest investors in the world of every single country and every single company. But we realize when we were in the representation business of entertainment and entertainment takes from podcasts to owning sports events, music, writer, direct, everything.”
2025-10-22 · In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · Ariel Emanuel: UFC, WWE, Hollywood and the future of live entertainment · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source