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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:41:43 Ben Gilbert People will need someone to look to for leadership, because no one's going to be looking to Michael.
- ▶ 1:45:57 David Rosenthal They accelerate his start date and Michael's departure date to that September, 2005, a year ahead of when Michael had initially announced and the Michael Eisner era at Disney comes to an end after 21 years.
- ▶ 1:46:14 Ben Gilbert Michael Eisner's tenure at Disney, in my mind, is really two chapters.
- ▶ 1:46:47 David Rosenthal But also, Michael made one of the greatest acquisitions of all time in the second 10 years, and because of all the drama, doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for it.
- ▶ 1:47:34 Ben Gilbert By the numbers, Michael's tenure was unbelievable.
- ▶ 1:48:56 David Rosenthal How long have you worked for Michael?
- ▶ 2:18:27 David Rosenthal Disney and Michael Eisner, who's still CEO at this point in time, are going to realize that they actually just created their worst nightmare.
- ▶ 2:22:23 Ben Gilbert Michael Eisner wants to renegotiate after realizing,
- ▶ 2:22:35 Ben Gilbert With joint participation fifty-fifty in the upside, now that Pixar has the cash to do it, Michael Eisner agrees as long as they can expand into a brand new five-picture deal, rolling the remaining two from the old contract into the new…
- ▶ 2:23:47 Ben Gilbert Meanwhile, the relationship with Michael Eisner is, is...
- ▶ 2:25:15 Ben Gilbert He goes to Eisner and says, hey, can the five picture deal include sequels?
- ▶ 2:25:20 Ben Gilbert Meanwhile, Michael Eisner is like, why would I do that?
- ▶ 2:26:22 Ben Gilbert It's Michael Eisner.
- ▶ 2:26:23 David Rosenthal So, Eisner goes and testifies in front of Congress in 2002 against the technology industry
- ▶ 2:27:12 David Rosenthal Now, to be totally fair to Eisner here, Disney had a big music business and a big album business.
- ▶ 2:27:45 David Rosenthal And as Nemo's coming together, Eisner sees a early screening of one of the reels of Nemo, decides he doesn't like it.
- ▶ 2:28:08 David Rosenthal After seeing the Nemo reel, Eisner writes a memo to the Disney board where he says that he's seen the Nemo reel.
- ▶ 2:28:42 Ben Gilbert And Jobs can see that Michael thinks Nemo's bad.
- ▶ 2:29:02 David Rosenthal So Nemo comes out in 2003 and Michael could not have been more wrong.
- ▶ 2:31:35 Ben Gilbert He proposes a deal to Eisner, and this is where the relationship becomes irreparable.
- ▶ 2:32:08 Ben Gilbert Eisner stands his ground and declines.
- ▶ 2:33:49 Ben Gilbert So all this happens in the last breaths of the Eisner administration.
- ▶ 3:48:27 David Rosenthal I think consumers have had some version of that complaint about Disney ever since Michael Eisner took over in 1984.
- ▶ 3:49:54 Ben Gilbert So before we get to the business today, we should talk about the beginning and end of Bob Iger's tenure, just like we did with Michael Eisner.
- ▶ 3:50:37 David Rosenthal Interesting, which also is the same thing that happened under Eisner.
- ▶ 3:54:47 Ben Gilbert Yeah, that was an Eisner thing.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:09:09 David Rosenthal And those three men, Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, would pull off probably the greatest media company comeback in history.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:51:52 David Rosenthal These are return to form, Eisner era, Disney animated, just like, fires on all cylinders.
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:36:10 Michael Ovitz Thought about going into public service, not private service, and I was very friendly with Michael Eisner.
- ▶ 1:36:19 Michael Ovitz He was one of my closest friends.
- ▶ 1:36:22 Michael Ovitz He had a heart attack and a quadruple bypass.
- ▶ 1:38:22 Michael Ovitz And Michael was sick.
- ▶ 1:38:23 Michael Ovitz He wasn't supposed to work every day.
- ▶ 1:38:32 Michael Ovitz Because when I came over, I was working seven days a week, 14 hours a day, and he was supposed to work two days a week, and he started working a little harder and harder, and his doctor was telling him not to, and it just was very clear…
- ▶ 1:38:52 Michael Ovitz For whatever reason, I threatened him, which shouldn't have, because I didn't want his job.
- ▶ 1:39:30 Michael Ovitz It's all the same, except I'm doing it with smarter people, and I really enjoy it, but when I got to Disney, it was very clear there was a head-to-head conflict, and Michael undercut me every chance he could, and after a couple years,
- ▶ 1:53:23 Michael Ovitz I was closer to Frank Wells than Michael Eisner was.
- ▶ 1:53:35 Michael Ovitz So Wells and Eisner, Wells wanted me to come and be the third part of the trifecta, because that worked for him for 20 years.
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