CAA is still a force in entertainment, but the real heirs to Ron and me are Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell, who’ve turned William Morris Endeavor into a multihyphenate business, a new octopus. Ari is now an agent, a producer, an advertiser, and an investment banker. Naturally, he trained at CAA. And, naturally, Ari and Patrick met at InterTalent, which Ron Meyer worked so hard to put out of business. You can’t kill the good ones. William Morris learned that after we left to start CAA, and CAA learned it when Ari and Patrick rose up to battle them.
