Ari-Adjusted EBITDA vs. Wall Street

Ari Emanuel in 2010
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William D. Cohan
June 23, 2021

“The only way to get to success,” Ari Emanuel recently told New Yorker writer Connie Bruck, “[is that] you realize you are going to fuck it up and you gotta just start going to work. There’s a boxing or UFC analogy: You gotta bite down on your mouthpiece and start fighting! You have to be willing to take the emotional damage. People get exhausted from that beating. I don’t know why I don’t.”