Investor Shares Ovitz Plane Purchase Anecdote
Will Manidis shares an Ovitz anecdote on buying a plane for deals.
Will Manidis posted that the most powerful piece of Ovitz thought technology was blowing like 99% of his net worth on a plane the second it was possible. He added that both deals and regulatory capture are questions of showing up, and commercial aviation will physically kill you if you're running hard. In reply, Jeff Huber asked if the reference comes from “Ovitz” by Slater. The post appears in a thread discussing AI lab leaders and flights between SFO and DCA.
the most powerful piece of ovtiz thought technology was blowing like 99% of his net worth on a plane the second it was possible. both deals and regulatory capture are questions of showing up, and commercial aviation will physically kill you if you're running hard.
Conversations between AI labs and leaders in DC are some of the most consequential discussions for our country and the world right now. Yet there are 25+ daily lie-flat flights from SFO to EWR/JFK and 0 from SFO to DCA. United Airlines, please do your patriotic duty. Introduce…
