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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:15 David Rosenthal Disney first switches to Columbia for distribution and then to United artists and audiences just keep loving Mickey.
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:35:42 David Rosenthal One of the early things they do is they buy Columbia pictures, the movie studio.
- ▶ 2:35:51 Ben Gilbert Like whenever you hear stories of, oh, and then at one point in the coked out 19 eighties where everyone was doing crazy stuff, Coke even went and bought Columbia pictures.
- ▶ 2:36:26 David Rosenthal It leads to a lot of really good stuff for Coca-Cola because this is how they get to know Herb Allen Jr. and Allen and Company, who was one of the principal shareholders of Columbia Pictures before Coke bought it.
- ▶ 3:02:55 David Rosenthal Well, speaking of the good initial few years of the run there, there's one more fruit, shall we say, to be harvested of the Columbia Pictures acquisition that Gozetta and Keough did in the early eighties.
- ▶ 3:03:24 David Rosenthal Sells Columbia to Sony.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 50:12 David Rosenthal Did you know that Columbia Pictures is not the same Columbia?
- ▶ 50:27 Ben Gilbert These companies, Columbia Pictures and CBS, where the C stands from Columbia, chose the word Columbia completely independently, and that is not true.
- ▶ 1:34:36 David Rosenthal Now, of course, we're talking about Sony buying Columbia pictures in 1989 for 3.2 billion dollars, but that was the equity purchase price.
- ▶ 1:34:53 David Rosenthal Columbia pictures.
- ▶ 1:34:55 David Rosenthal Everybody at the time I think knew that that truly was way more than the company was worth.
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:21:40 Michael Ovitz Columbia was in trouble.
- ▶ 1:22:17 Michael Ovitz I couldn't afford for Universal or Columbia or MGM or Warners to shut down or to reduce the scope of their budgets.
- ▶ 1:27:08 Michael Ovitz Subsequently, I couldn't get traction with Kirk, so Herb and I started working on Columbia, which Coca-Cola owned.
- ▶ 1:27:21 Michael Ovitz We worked the deal, and through a long process, arranged to sell Columbia and TriStar to Sony.