CEO Ariel Emanuel in conversation at Aspen Ideas Festival

“I supply content, and I charge as much as I can. And I do it well,” media super-agent and power broker Ariel Emanuel, CEO of WME (William Morris Endeavor), told a packed audience at the Doerr-Hosier Center on Friday afternoon in an Aspen Ideas Festival session titled “King of the Deal.” For those who came to see the real-life version of the character Ari Gold from the HBO series “Entourage,” Emanuel did not disappoint. But other than that, one boast while answering a question from first-year festival curator Tina Brown,...