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Guy Oseary

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  1. “On that day, that was a confirmation I needed that I'm on the right path. And I went, that's it. From this point on, I'm going to turn it up. I'm not looking back. This guy offered me 25K in one meeting. I just ran 16. I'm going to stick to this. I can do this. And many years later, when I got my first gold record, I sent it to Bernie. Because that was so impactful on my life.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Going anywhere at all. But what ended up happening was I came back home and I thought to myself, wow, I'm 16 years old. This guy offered me as much money as people make a year in one meeting. So if people feel they have talent, they don't know really. There's no confirmation on that talent. People think, oh, my mom says I'm a good singer or so-and-so says I'm great at this. But you don't know until someone confirms it, until someone buys your book or goes to your show”

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  3. “Yeah, I had no idea. I said three music business people. He did, and I got meetings with a few of them, but they never ended up.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “And I knew not to pause because then he'd know I'm a phony. So I said $25,000 He said, I'll tell you what, kid, I'll give you the $25,000. If you make it back, pay me back. That's all I ask. And at the time, I'd never seen $2,500. So I just said, Bernie, I'd rather you make three phone calls for me to music people. I don't want your money. And he ended up putting that in his first book, that story. He's passed away, unfortunately. And he always felt that I said no because I just couldn't take the money from him. I said no because I didn't know what to do with $25,000. And I was a phony. But until his last days, he always thought in his book, he's like, the one guy that didn't want to take my money was Gai Osiri. It's not true. I just didn't know what to do with it. So he made those three phone calls for me.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “So, the week I turned 16, I went to meet with Bernie. What happened was, I approached a lot of the kids at school at Beverly Hills High, and I said, can I meet your dad? Can I meet your dad? Can I meet your dad? And just anyone that was in entertainment and out of all the people that I approached, I got two meetings that would end up both being really the most impactful meetings I could ever have. And one of them, first one I got was Bernie Burlstein. And his two boys, Nick and Dave, both told their dad, you know, you should meet with Guy. So I go meet with Bernie. He was at the 9200 building on Sunset. And I played him a song. I don't even remember what group or what it was at this stage, but I played him a song. And he just says, he looks at me and goes, well, hey kid, how much is it going to cost to put this out?”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I'll have something to show. I think I called it wise guy records. It just, I didn't know what any of it meant, but I had my little logo. I did everything I could possibly do without knowing anything or anyone. And then the week I turned 16, I remember it was the week I turned 16 because I didn't pass my driver test. So I needed to be dropped off.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “My own on your own on my own. I didn't know what I was doing. I just thought, let me put together a portfolio. Let me have someone take photos of these artists. Let me get the demos. One day I'll get a meeting with somebody.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “And he was beloved. He looked a little like Santa Claus. He was a really big guy With a white beard, when I was 15, I started to compile artists that I like that had demos. So I would go out there and try to find artists and try to find new artists. And I had like the yearbook person come and take photos of these.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “So, Bernie Burlstein is iconic in Hollywood. He's one of the greats. He was exceptional. He was one of the original managers and he managed all of these amazing talents, a lot of the talents from SNL, he managed all of them. He started this idea of building.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “And I started to what am I good at? What could I be good at? And music was my love. It was my passion. It's what I was obsessed over. And so I thought something in music. And that's when I started to really pay attention to what could I do around music where I do music and then around 15, I really started to pick that up. And at 16, I was already like really running with it.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Once you walk through those doors, it might as well be a TV show from where I just came from. People have a lot. There's cars and there's homes with pools and just the optionality and the potential of what they all had was pretty wild. And that actually inspired me to, oh, I didn't know you can aim this high. I don't have what these people have. I don't have the means. I don't have the money. I don't have the connections. So I better start working. I think like 14, it really started to kick in where I go, ooh, because these people are going, they go on trips and ski trips. And I don't know anything about skiing. I don't know anything about, I didn't live that world. So I knew that I needed to do something about it.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “I just said that to my dad. And, you know, we didn't live in Beverly Hills. And he knew that's what I wanted. And he heard me. He came back to me and said, there's someone who I know who lives in Beverly Hills and they will give you their address to basically pretend that you live there so you can go to that school that you want to go to. And the combination of going to school in downtown LA and also going to Beverly Hills High right after, I think that's a big part of who I am today.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “And so there are no such thing as coincidences. But my dad showed up, I got in the car and I was like, I almost died and someone pulled out a knife on me and you were late and I want to go to Beverly Hills High School next. And again, there's no coincidences. That just came to me right then and there that I want to go from downtown LA to Beverly Hills High. And there was a TV show 90210 back then. So I thought, I want to check that out That's a different world from the world I'm in now. I want to just see it. I didn't know at the time, but you have to live in Beverly Hills to go to Beverly Hills High School.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “With music one night, I was outside the school dance. There was the LA Dream Team. That's what they were called, this group that was performing that night. Waiting outside the school. I was very tall. I looked a little older than I was. And it was late. My dad was late to pick me up. And while I was out there, I saw a guy running past me for his life. And then I see a car turn the corner. And I guess it was chasing the guy down. And a guy jumped out of the passenger seat and pulled a knife out on me and asked me if I was with that guy. Asked me if I was in a gang. And I said, I'm not just a kid waiting for my dad. I was school dance and this is my school and so we got back in the car to chase the guy.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Before Breverly Hills High School, I went to a school in downtown LA. It was on Peacon Arlington. So it's almost on the way to, if you're going to go see a Lakers game, it's on the way to that. And I went to that school and it was incredible. So many great people. Music was a big piece of that of my journey there. I took a school bus there and the kids would go between two radio stations on the bus. So the bus driver would play either KDAY, which is the first hip-hop station in LA, or they would go to K-Rock, which is the alternative radio station in LA. And I love them both. And so I met a lot of really cool kids there who were in these groups of people. They were like the punk rockers, the hip-hoppers, the breakdancers, gang members, graffiti artists. There's just a great eclectic group of people during that time period where I'm just, I'm a sponge. I'm just picking up all the energies and really falling in love with.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “It was love God, and it was sign prince Was a long time ago because later on he became a Jehovah Witness. You could see the posters. I had like Billy Idol and Prince on my walls and you could see it from the street if you looked up. So you can come out if you're waiting for your car or whatever and you look and you'd see, okay, there's someone up there likes music a lot. I was on the first floor. There's a little balcony there. And then I come out a lot to meet. I met NXS and I met some people I became friends with like Billy Eidol. I became friends with years later and Michael Hutchins I became friends with him Morrissey. I became friends with later. But I met them all when I was a kid. And a really cool thing is other kids were around then. They were older than me, but there were kids. And so I could hang with them and really get a little camaraderie with some of the fans out there that were waiting for the bands.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “The place where I was living with my dad, an apartment building in West Hollywood was directly across the street from a hotel called a park hotel. And that's when I started meeting artists. I started becoming a fan. I love music, but I became a fan, someone that would actually wait to get their album signed or, you know, and Prince actually signed something for me. He wrote Love God for me. And I told him that years, years, years later. We became friends and became close.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “That's purple, rain, lyrics by Prince. I'm a huge fan of Prince. When I was a kid, I had prints posters up on my wall and I met him when I was 12.”

    2026-07-07 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic First · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT