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He stayed at William Motris for over five years and would happily have stayed longer, but fate intervened when his mentor was fired. That presented an opportunity to start his own operation, Creative Artists Agency. Founded in 1975 with four colleagues from William Morris, CM became a huge success, representing Hollywood legends like Cher, Madonna, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise. In the beginning, though, the staff of five struggled-18-hour days, seven days a week. They didn't draw any money out of the company for the first two years.
他在威廉·莫里斯代理行待了5年多，并很樂意待更長的時間，但命運弄人，不久他的師傅被解雇了。這使他有機會開始他自己的公司——創意藝術家代理行。 1975年成立初期，公司只有四個從威廉·莫里斯代理行出來的同事，但創意藝術家代理行卻獲得了巨大的成功，為好萊塢傳奇人物雪兒、麥當娜、湯姆·漢克斯和湯姆·克魯斯等巨星代理。在最開始，只有這 5個員工共同奮斗，一天 18個小時，一周工作 7大。他們在頭兩年里沒向公司要一分錢。
But Meyer had an advantage: Few people knew the business as well as he did, and few were as good with people. He built CAA client by client. He was always networking. attending anything he could get invited to-parties, dinners, screenings, and tapings.
梅耶爾有一個優勢：很少有人能像他一樣了解生意，也很少有人能像他一樣與人為善。梅耶爾逐漸地建立了創意藝術家代理行的客戶群，他總在與人拉關系，參加他所被邀請的任何活動——聚會、會餐、電影、錄音。
