He hated his former mentor, Michael Ovitz, for screwing him over during the Scour startup years. But he had also learned from Ovitz. When the superagent had reigned over Creative Artists Agency, and dominated Hollywood for twenty years, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War had been his bible. Now it became Kalanick’s, too: So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
