How Variety Business Managers Elite Honoree Matt Lichtenberg Became a Money Meister for Top Comedy Talent
variety.comTodd Longwell Matt Lichtenberg had what he calls his “come to Jesus” moment during a bus ride through the Bronx in the late 1970s.
At the time, he was drifting. He had left New Paltz College in upstate New York to study photography at the University of Buffalo, then, at the urging of his father, transferred to business-oriented Baruch College in Manhattan.
By chance, he struck up a conversation with a man sitting next him, dressed in a suit and a tie, who suggested he give his profession a try: accounting.
Heeding the man’s advice, Lichtenberg took an accounting class, which led to a job with a somewhat shady family-run business in New York’s Garment District. “I was bookkeeper-slash-driver-slash-anything,” says Lichtenberg. “It was a lot of energy.
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