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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:32 David Rosenthal Michael strikes a deal for the Walt Disney Company to acquire ABC Capital Cities for nineteen billion dollars, which was the second largest acquisition in history to that point.
- ▶ 1:04:09 David Rosenthal CEO of Capital Cities ABC, yep.
- ▶ 1:04:17 David Rosenthal So Warren Buffett and Berkshire was the largest shareholder in ABC Cap Cities, which had been created a decade earlier in the famous Minnow Swallows Whale transaction.
- ▶ 1:05:08 David Rosenthal So Buffett and Berkshire are the largest shareholders in ABC Cap Cities here.
- ▶ 1:10:49 David Rosenthal So, back to the Disney Cap City's ABC deal here in 1995, I don't think,
- ▶ 1:11:40 David Rosenthal But absolutely quickly after Disney acquires Cap Cities in 1996, ESPN becomes this just crown jewel within the company almost overnight and almost completely by accident.
- ▶ 1:13:15 Ben Gilbert So, so Disney is already in the cable game before acquiring ABC Cap City's ESPN.
- ▶ 1:16:17 David Rosenthal Comes into Disney via the Cap Cities acquisition.
- ▶ 1:16:20 Ben Gilbert He worked at Capital Cities.
- ▶ 1:16:22 David Rosenthal Bob is COO of Cap Cities.
- ▶ 1:19:59 David Rosenthal Eisner had built and assembled at Disney, especially after Cap Cities.
- ▶ 1:21:49 Ben Gilbert Yeah, and with Capital Cities, ABC, ESPN coming in, it's a little bit confusing how to think about and organize the company, because before you had this nice, tidy flywheel business.
- ▶ 1:22:17 Ben Gilbert When they bought Capital Cities, it's totally different.
- ▶ 1:46:27 David Rosenthal And acquiring Capital Cities.
- ▶ 1:46:28 Ben Gilbert But the ownership of Capital Cities is sort of that, that whole second era.
- ▶ 1:46:57 Ben Gilbert It's so interesting when you say the greatest acquisitions of all time when I look at ABC Capital Cities.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 10:27 Ben Gilbert Cap cities.