What are the advantages and disadvantages of being born into a prominent entertainment family?
My first venture into the world of sports was to buy an arena football team at the age of 24. My being Lew Wasserman’s grandson allowed me the opportunity to make that decision. It stopped there. I wanted to do something where I would be judged on my own success or failure. Either was OK so long as it was based on what I did, not on what somebody perceives somebody else helped me to do. Being Lew Wasserman’s grandson didn’t help me sell a single season ticket. It didn’t help me sign a single football player. It didn’t help me build any of the business that we’ve got here. Having said that, to me, there are no disadvantages. Q: For those who don’t have the benefit of an extraordinary individual as a mentor, how might they go about seeking one? A: When I bought the Avengers, the first thing I did was to call every owner or president of every sports team in L.A. to go to lunch, because they were doing it and knew a lot more about it. People in positions of success usually had mentors in t
