Ari Emanuel: the tenacious super agent disrupting Hollywood

Back in 1997, when Ari Emanuel was just two years into building a talent business that would disrupt the US entertainment industry, he persuaded Vince McMahon, the professional wrestling impresario, to make time for a breakfast meeting.

At the time, the WWE founder “didn’t have to do that; everybody was chasing him”, Emanuel recalls. But McMahon was sold on the tenacious young Emanuel, and hired him to be his agent.