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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 13:13 David Rosenthal So Michael, until recently, the timing is just crazy on this, had been probably the hottest Hollywood movie studio executive in town.
- ▶ 13:25 David Rosenthal He had been the number two executive at Paramount under Barry Diller and had architected one of the most legendary runs in Hollywood history.
- ▶ 14:09 David Rosenthal They're guiding judgment as opposed to the typical Hollywood thing of who's attached to the project.
- ▶ 14:29 David Rosenthal So Michael writes a famous memo in Hollywood history that gets leaked and spread around the rest of Hollywood describing the strategy.
- ▶ 14:38 Ben Gilbert No memo actually ever leaks in Hollywood.
- ▶ 15:52 David Rosenthal Disney is not a Hollywood company.
- ▶ 23:18 David Rosenthal All told, 27 of their first 33 movies that they make are profitable, which, in Hollywood, to have a hit rate like that, that's like making 33 venture capital investments and only losing money in six of them.
- ▶ 1:19:33 David Rosenthal This was huge news in Hollywood.
- ▶ 1:19:36 Ben Gilbert I mean, Michael Ovitz built CAA into such a force in not only Hollywood, but kind of the whole creative community.
- ▶ 1:56:17 Ben Gilbert No one in Hollywood was looking to invest in building out new computer technology just because.
- ▶ 3:03:43 Ben Gilbert I mean, if you just do the very simple exercise of looking who generates profits in the movie TV Hollywood landscape right now, it is
- ▶ 3:20:39 David Rosenthal I mean, unprecedented in Hollywood history.
- ▶ 3:43:40 David Rosenthal 2023 was the year of the Hollywood strikes.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:21 Ben Gilbert What is it that Walt's merry band did from the 19 twenties onward that made them succeed uniquely well in Hollywood?
- ▶ 2:29 Ben Gilbert And when you look at Disney's profits today, it is in a whole different league than Paramount or Universal or Warner Brothers or any of the other sort of classic Hollywood studios.
- ▶ 23:19 David Rosenthal So Walt packs his belongings, which is basically nothing at this point in time, hops aboard the Santa Fe train bound for LA and joins them in Hollywood.
- ▶ 23:42 David Rosenthal Wall at first thinks that he's come to Hollywood.
- ▶ 23:48 David Rosenthal He's going to get a, a directing job in Hollywood at one of the studios there.
- ▶ 24:09 David Rosenthal But also, like, the hubris that he thinks that he could just show up in Hollywood with no directorial experience and become the next DW Griffith.
- ▶ 25:08 David Rosenthal So once he inevitably gets rejected at all the major Hollywood studios, he says later, when things began to look hopeless, I got my cartoon things out again.
- ▶ 27:50 Ben Gilbert Agreement entered into the 16th day of October, 1923 between Walt Disney of 44 or six Kingswell Avenue, Hollywood, California, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- ▶ 1:09:23 Ben Gilbert I mean, it's funny, we started the episode comparing Disney to other Hollywood studios, but this is not a Hollywood studio.
- ▶ 1:09:30 Ben Gilbert They're not shooting live action films.
- ▶ 1:16:35 David Rosenthal And like the problems that Hollywood and most other studios have and Disney too, especially with Marvel.
- ▶ 1:19:16 David Rosenthal And Walt is starting to get a crazy idea of how he might be able to do that, which is to create Hollywood's first full length animated feature film, Snow White.
- ▶ 1:22:56 Ben Gilbert We gotta tell the nickname of Snow White, the project that was going around Hollywood.
- ▶ 1:23:24 David Rosenthal The idea of a feature length animated film was crazy in 19 thirties Hollywood.
- ▶ 1:42:22 David Rosenthal So, the movie finally premieres in Hollywood on December 2119 37, and I mean, it's one of the greatest films ever made.
- ▶ 1:43:43 David Rosenthal An authentic masterpiece to be shown in theaters and beloved by new generations long after the current crop of Hollywood stars, writers, and directors are sleeping where no prince's kiss can wake them.
- ▶ 2:04:50 David Rosenthal So, on May 2919 41, the Screen Cartoonists Guild, which is a union that had unionized every other major animation studio in Hollywood and New York over the couple years leading up to this.
- ▶ 2:12:08 David Rosenthal Yeah, for the rest of his life, he would blame all of this on communist influences in Hollywood.
- ▶ 2:12:17 David Rosenthal Testify after World War II in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, you know, HUAC, as a friendly witness corroborating communist infiltration in Hollywood.
- ▶ 2:12:50 David Rosenthal One thing later, sort of by association with this, uh, people would accuse Walt of being anti-Semitic since much of the communist movement in, in the U.S., and especially in Hollywood, was in the Jewish community.
- ▶ 2:15:12 David Rosenthal If you look today at the list of inflation-adjusted top films in history by box office gross inflation-adjusted, Fantasia is the 24th highest grossing film in Hollywood history.
- ▶ 2:49:09 Ben Gilbert He had that train and, you know, a vacation house in Palm Springs and all that, but it's not what the other big Hollywood moguls were doing.
- ▶ 2:54:47 David Rosenthal So yeah, at the time, the prevailing sentiment in Hollywood was that TV was a threat.
- ▶ 2:54:53 David Rosenthal That if Hollywood movie studios started putting their content on TV, it would steal audiences away from the theaters.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:13 David Rosenthal All of the old world luxury and heritage and legitimacy of Europe with the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood and the new world in a way that's still very much part of F-One today.
- ▶ 19:50 David Rosenthal So all of her Hollywood circles start coming out to the race to visit her.
- ▶ 3:04:07 David Rosenthal We should probably go start courting Hollywood.
- ▶ 4:04:19 David Rosenthal Plus the crossover with Hollywood.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 23:53 David Rosenthal The reason that, one of the reasons besides just wanting to meet you because you've been an inspiration to us forever, ah, that I wanted to meet you a few months ago was Hollywood.
- ▶ 24:02 David Rosenthal Ah, we've had lots of opportunities to work with Hollywood.
- ▶ 24:13 Michael Lewis Are you talking about doing episodes in Hollywood?
- ▶ 26:46 Michael Lewis If you were to take time off to go do something in Hollywood, you'd be abandoning this glorious network.
- ▶ 28:49 David Rosenthal We were talking with Greg Peters, the co-CEO of Netflix, and asking him how Netflix is reshaping Hollywood just a few hours before they announced the Warner Brothers acquisition.
- ▶ 30:32 Michael Lewis It's okay to have a too hard pile, and you said, and the too hard pile is like doing things in Hollywood, but when I asked the question, did you ever run across this?
- ▶ 50:48 Michael Lewis I love name dropping in your world is so different from the name dropping in like Hollywood.
- ▶ 50:53 Michael Lewis None of your names mean anything in Hollywood, but they mean everything here.
- ▶ 1:25:56 Ben Gilbert Could be about businesses, could be about sports teams, could be about- Hollywood, movies.
- ▶ 1:31:50 David Rosenthal We're not doing Hollywood, we're not, uh, adding more shows, we're not building an enterprise.
- ▶ 1:32:22 David Rosenthal Hollywood, et cetera.
- ▶ 1:33:01 David Rosenthal Go make a Hollywood movie.
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:28 David Rosenthal Influence and Disney World and Hollywood and movies and books.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:46 David Rosenthal Did you hire, like, a Hollywood script writing consultant without telling me?
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:06 Ben Gilbert It's kinda like how Hollywood loves making movies about Hollywood.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:35:21 David Rosenthal I'm trying to think of an analogy in, like, Hollywood.
- ▶ 3:52:47 David Rosenthal Two is actually entertainment in Hollywood.
- ▶ 3:52:49 David Rosenthal You actually have Indian Americans who are becoming stars and A-list stars in Hollywood.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:25:23 Ben Gilbert Industry in Hollywood, and did it really without ever talking to the press, and were very tight-lipped about it.
- ▶ 2:25:29 Ben Gilbert For some Hollywood outsider, I found the book really wonderful, really compelling.
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 59:17 David Rosenthal It looks like a Hollywood studio building.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:37 David Rosenthal So, so the, the amount that she's getting just from streaming, like, era's tour aside, movie aside, she is getting paid more every year than any Hollywood actor, probably any athlete in the world, um, she could just sit at home.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 22:09 David Rosenthal Building the graphics workstations that Hollywood ran on and did Jurassic Park and all that, was they were Nintendo's technology partner for the N-sixty-four.
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:28:07 Ben Gilbert We've seen all the headlines about it being rampant in wealthy New York neighborhoods or around Hollywood, but let's segment that away for a moment and say, well, ok,
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:47:00 Ben Gilbert I think Nike didn't see exactly what was coming with Kanye, but I do think they realized, hmm, our entire brand is built on celebrating athletes, and while we should be in business with celebrities in some way, shape, and form, I mean,…
Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
- ▶ 46:08 David Rosenthal So a super obvious point to illustrate this is, um, folks are probably, you know, no names like James Dean or Steve McQueen, these famous Hollywood actors that were known as like, you know, they did all these race car films that they were…
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 56:09 Daniel Ek Sort of local productions, but actually now coming to Hollywood and doing that as well.
- ▶ 56:14 Daniel Ek And I've seen it in, in, in my case, um, there's been a bunch of Swedish, um, writers and producers and, and, uh, actors now that are getting into Hollywood productions and it's been, you know, fun to see.
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:41:12 Ben Gilbert I was shocked to learn that the gaming industry has always been larger than TV and Hollywood, if you include the total coin drop in arcades, and I, I always just thought this was this new phenomenon of like, wow, video games have become so…
- ▶ 1:41:33 Mitch Lasky I don't know much as much about what they count when they count the Hollywood revenues or the, or the music industry revenues, right?
- ▶ 1:44:08 Mitch Lasky My brother ends up at the MIT Media Lab and then goes to Hollywood and invents video assist essentially in Hollywood, so both of us ended up kind of techno geeks.
- ▶ 1:50:17 Mitch Lasky I, I think that it's true, and you find this to be the case in Hollywood quite a bit, right?
- ▶ 1:53:48 Mitch Lasky And now we don't think of it, now we think of it more as a pertinent to Hollywood.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 8:30 David Rosenthal We start with one of the most famous film actresses, Hollywood film actresses of all time, a woman named Hedy Lamarr.
- ▶ 10:46 David Rosenthal And then from Paris, made it to the U.S., went to Hollywood, and lived in Hollywood for most of the rest of her life.
- ▶ 12:15 David Rosenthal So Hetty teams up with her new Hollywood neighbor, a composer, a music composer, named George Antheal, bear with us here, I promise this is getting to Qualcomm, uh, who is a film music composer, and they, with her ideas and his musical…
- ▶ 15:11 David Rosenthal So here's where, if this were a, you know, Hollywood movie, like one of Hedy's films,
- ▶ 18:10 David Rosenthal So, we've described, like, the Hollywood part, we've described here in Act Two, Claude Shannon, you know, birth of computing, all that.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:01 David Rosenthal It's probably a lot of this work they're thinking, oh, maybe we can get into more professional like Hollywood and architecture and other professional graphics domains.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:02 Ben Gilbert Video games today are a hundred and eighty billion dollar a year industry, bigger than Hollywood, bigger than music.
- ▶ 1:52:02 David Rosenthal Like, you maybe could have seen it, like, you know, there was SGI and Hollywood and Jurassic Park, and there were some military applications for computer graphics, but very few, even Jetson and NVIDIA, they were, like, video games are the…
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:43 Brad Gerstner Uh, I remember being in the back of a limousine in Hollywood on my way to Barry Diller's house with Rich Barton, and we looked at each other and we're like, strange world, how'd we end up here?
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:05 Ben Gilbert And they have the third largest Hollywood film studio on top of all of that.
- ▶ 1:01:52 David Rosenthal They start talking to Sid Sheinberg about this, and Sid's like, you know, Lou and Sid, as we talked about with Michael Ovitz, they are smart cookies, uh, and they were behind aggregating all the power in Hollywood before Ovitz came along,…
- ▶ 1:02:11 David Rosenthal this Betamax thing, that's actually kind of a threat to, like, our power to Hollywood.
- ▶ 1:06:39 David Rosenthal Well, Lou and MCA had such clout in Hollywood at that point in time.
- ▶ 2:07:11 Ben Gilbert Yeah, if you sum up all of music and all of Hollywood and then multiply it by two, two and a half, then you get the video games market.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:10 unnamed speaker So there might be two or three or four RCA labels in Nashville or in New York or in Hollywood.
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 0:54 Ben Gilbert He was the most powerful man in Hollywood for two decades.
- ▶ 1:18 Ben Gilbert That changed the power structure in Hollywood forever.
- ▶ 1:22 Ben Gilbert And not just Hollywood.
- ▶ 4:57 David Rosenthal Uh, so we're thinking today, of course, this being acquired, we're going to start all the way back way before your time, tell the history of the golden age of Hollywood, new Hollywood, and then leading into you and CIA, of course, but, uh,…
- ▶ 11:53 David Rosenthal Of course, Steven Spielberg, who was the one, also the one guy in Hollywood at that point, the one director who is not your client, right?
- ▶ 16:41 David Rosenthal And we're going to talk a lot more about packages and everything you pioneered, but I mean, this in the old world, the old, old Hollywood, all these people would have been under contract with the studio and just paid employees, paid labor,…
- ▶ 21:06 David Rosenthal You know, back when all these folks were under contract, I'm really, I mean, reading about old Hollywood and learning how the old studio system worked.
- ▶ 1:10:20 David Rosenthal Was there an element, I, I know this was the case at WMA, but maybe at all the agencies of a holdover from old Hollywood where, where New York owned these, like who owned these, uh, your competitors, uh, like, um, like, like you said, you…
- ▶ 1:20:29 Ben Gilbert You know, we talked about this period where, you know, you're signing your first clients, you went on to become, you know, to represent 45 of the top 50 in Hollywood, talked about, you know, your foray into advertising with Coca-Cola.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 4:39 Ben Gilbert Since Joe is a professional Hollywood actor, I take that as a great, unbelievable compliment.