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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:46:51 Ben Gilbert And so in 1953 in April, Walt Disney Productions board of directors, this is a public company, agreed to a personal services contract with Walt and contracts with WED to design and build the Disneyland park attractions.
- ▶ 2:48:24 David Rosenthal Was he trying to accumulate cash so that he could fund Disneyland?
- ▶ 2:50:51 Ben Gilbert The company was doing twenty one million in pre-tax earnings, and at this point, because this is after Disneyland, this is after a bunch of stuff, it had
- ▶ 2:52:12 Ben Gilbert The origin of Disneyland is, at least so far in the story, not about the company intentionally looking for more places to put its intellectual property.
- ▶ 2:52:24 Ben Gilbert There are essentially zero synergies as conceptualized so far for Disneyland.
- ▶ 2:52:31 David Rosenthal But all of that's about to change because Disneyland, even post all of the budget expansion after SRI and moving to Orange County and a 160 acres, is getting so out of hand in its budget that it needs to actually come back to the company.
- ▶ 2:52:54 Ben Gilbert Originally, they thought they would need about five million dollars for the Anaheim Disneyland.