business. First, I said, the equity had to be split evenly. Second, we had to try to get as big as we could. Third, we’d share our clients and serve them as a group—no turf wars, no silos. At William Morris we had many an agent who excelled at signing artists but stumbled in finding work for them. Wouldn’t it be better, I said, if clients could rotate freely within our firm? We’d be five musketeers, one for all and all for one. Everyone would handle everyone,

