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A source with decades of high-level film and TV business experience weighs in on the astonishing thirty-year ascent of one of show business\u2019 most powerful players, Endeavor and TKO boss and Hollywood\u2019s widely respected top talent agent Ari Emanuel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first thing everybody knows and understands about Ari is that he doesn\u2019t take no for an answer<\/span><\/a> and can be incredibly persuasive when advocating for a client or putting together a complex business vision,\u201d the insider told <\/span>In Touch<\/span><\/i>. \u201cSure, he\u2019s a fighter, but it all goes way beyond the rather superficial caricature <\/span>Jeremy Piven<\/b><\/a>\u00a0performed of him on Entourage<\/em>. The real Ari is somebody people admire for his work ethic, his never-say-die attitude, and his willingness to put in incredibly long hours and to make good for his legendary roster of talent. Ari is a CEO of a multi-billion dollar company, but he still works as a talent agent every single day and is a master at soothing egos and turning promising clients into household names. How the hell does he do it all? That\u2019s the complex part of the question, because Ari himself has had such a unique journey.\u201d<\/p>\n The source notes that back in the nineties, Ari defied the odds in founding Endeavor, a rare start-up agency that eventually went on to absorb much larger competitor William Morris in a stunning takeover that in itself reset the Hollywood talent landscape<\/a>. The combined entity would eventually purchase the UFC and WWE sports entertainment franchises, and Ari became a bona fide media mogul as a result.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only enemies Ari makes are the people who have to be on the other side of a negotiation with him,\u201d the insider adds. \u201cHis clients, on the other hand, are incredibly devoted to him and he has retained some of them since the earliest days of his career. There\u2019s this ring of loyalty around him formed by the A-listers who he has represented for decades and who he has made incredibly rich<\/a>. They all became powerful brand names under Ari\u2019s guidance and the incredibly high standard he holds himself and his colleagues to. Even with his multiple Chief Executive titles, he\u2019s incredibly fired up by going out and performing hand-to-hand combat to optimize deals for his clients. This is a guy who is up before dawn working the phones and doesn\u2019t let up for the next 18 hours. That\u2019s why he\u2019s the king in this town. Calling him \u2018The Energizer Bunny\u2019 sells him short a bit because as tenacious as he is, it all comes from a personal place clearly connected to his upbringing in an overachieving family and his willingness to take on the big players in whatever field he has attempted to get in.\u201d<\/p>\n To that point, the source notes that in his early agenting days Ari was happy to take on the biggest names from the older generation of moguls that ran the town at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cAri was never afraid of the old-time moguls like David Geffen, Barry Diller<\/strong> or Michael Eisner<\/strong> who were in charge when he got into the industry. Ari was \u2013and still is \u2014 impossible to intimidate even from his earliest days in the business, and he could stand up to anybody. Long before he finally became a billionaire himself, he emerged victorious in countless David vs. Goliath situations. On the political stage, he\u2019s able to eloquently express his love for Israel while sharply critiquing the country\u2019s current policymakers. When Ari speaks out on this stuff, people listen and people take him seriously. It\u2019s his integrity and tirelessness that have given him staying power, not his sheer, large-scale business success. He\u2019s still a hustler, but unlike a lot of people in Hollywood, he\u2019s never a liar or a hype beast. For better or worse, he calls it like it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n