David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

eight-hour workdays in one hour. I
would use my office and my position to
get access to all the legal contracts,
business contracts, the treatments being
submitted to Warner Brothers—why they
passed, what they considered. I used that
year to gain knowledge and information
about the movie business. I would call
someone every single day. And I would
say, ‘I’m Brian Grazer. I work at Warner
Brothers business affairs. I want to meet
you.’”
He was eventually fired, but only
after he had stretched his three-month
term to a year and sold two ideas to
NBC for five thousand dollars each.
Grazer and Cohn—two outsiders with
learning disabilities—played a trick.