A few years later, after taking a small departure back into producing and finding his way back to the agency life, he became an agent at Metropolitan for four years and was then recruited by APA, for another four years and then five years at Paradigm. As Lee was on his way out of WMA, writing was on the wall and David took the opportunity to join the team over at Endeavor, where he received more of a well-rounded education about the Hollywood business, but where he would also meet the soon to be founding members of Verve. He learned about television packaging and representing highly revered showrunners. Time was on David’s side as Lee was well into the second act of his monolith career and was primed to mentor – and David was the chosen one. He quickly climbed up the ladder and worked at legendary agent Lee Rosenberg’s desk. Not having had interacted with agents before, he mailed his resume all around town and landed a job at William Morris Agency – a new eye-opening perspective. Over a period of two years, he cut his teeth learning about the business, until one day an associate suggested that if he wanted to really learn about the business, he should work at an agency – that was after all, the beating heart of the industry. He ended up getting his first job at Jerry Bruckheimer Films – a wake-up call to what Hollywood was. He knew there was much more to learn by gaining experience in different fields – while directing and storytelling was a love of his, the hustle in the scene wasn’t what he had wanted to pursue at the time. Upon graduating from NYU, David’s learning experience wasn’t done yet. Granted, the New York filmmaking scene had its own edge and aesthetic, more of an independent scene at the time, but it was an experience he thoroughly enjoyed, nonetheless. Upon realizing that the hustle and bustle of the film business is non-existent in Santa Barbara, he applied to NYU, and this is where he was able to fully immerse himself into the world of filmmaking.
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He attended UCSB, to get the full college experience.
This passion for storytelling was something he’d always wanted to explore – don’t let the Jewish boy from California stereotype fool you, he had zero connections in the industry on either coast to gain the system in his favor – David unequivocally forged his own path. David grew up in California, a budding cinephile, who at the age around of eight-years-old, picked up his first 8mm camera and enlisted his friends to act in short films. Within the first few minutes of speaking with David, you immediately sense his passion for story, storytellers, the craft, the business, and above all else, his writers. Cut to a few years later, and Verve brought in one of the industry’s sought-out literary agents, David Boxerbaum.
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