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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 2:42:13 David Rosenthal Word had gotten out that Pixar was working on a movie about rats making food.
- ▶ 2:42:56 David Rosenthal Like I get that it saved Disney, but how did it save Pixar?
- ▶ 2:43:08 David Rosenthal Steve was gonna die and that Pixar really couldn't continue independently without him.
- ▶ 2:43:29 Ben Gilbert They're not Pixar movies, but like they, they rhyme so closely.
- ▶ 2:43:35 Ben Gilbert To prep for this episode, who of course plays Anna in Frozen, and she very much confirmed the way that Disney animation works today is similar to that Pixar blueprint from the early nineties.
- ▶ 2:44:15 Ben Gilbert So if we sit here today and look back at the Pixar acquisition, it's just such an obvious giant, giant success.
- ▶ 2:45:58 Ben Gilbert Disney Plus are either Pixar or Disney Animation.
- ▶ 2:46:42 David Rosenthal So, after Pixar, Bob and the Disney board are like, uh, well, that worked well.
- ▶ 2:52:22 David Rosenthal I, I think really it was another version of the same thesis of Pixar, which was there are great stories and storytellers here, and let's give them a bigger canvas to paint on.
- ▶ 2:53:53 Ben Gilbert It's also fun to sort of speculate on why Lucasfilm and Marvel were lower price tags than Pixar was, like dramatically lower.
- ▶ 2:54:10 Ben Gilbert It was certainly right to pay
- ▶ 2:54:42 David Rosenthal The core film characters and stories are back to all-time heights, not only at Disney Animation, but now Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel, too.
- ▶ 2:55:54 Ben Gilbert So fun fact about that, they were originally before the acquisition of Pixar developing Car Land.
- ▶ 2:56:02 Ben Gilbert And then they bought Pixar and they thought, oh, well, let's just make Cars Land.
- ▶ 2:56:59 Ben Gilbert If you go line up those three acquisitions, which sound ludicrous on their price tags, especially when you didn't know how they were gonna pay off, Pixar at 7.4 billion, let's even include the cash in there, that's about two and a half…
- ▶ 2:57:32 David Rosenthal ESPN paid for Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm.
- ▶ 3:09:25 David Rosenthal Ben, like you alluded to, they say they will be ending their content agreements with Netflix and pulling all Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm content off of Netflix by 2019, which Netflix was already paying them hundreds of millions of…
- ▶ 3:11:48 David Rosenthal He directs all the creative studios within Disney, Disney Animation, Disney Live Action, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel, to start producing content and gearing up specifically for the new first-party Disney streaming service coming in, on top of…
- ▶ 3:16:30 David Rosenthal Way more, way more than Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm all combined.
- ▶ 3:19:37 David Rosenthal All of Disney IP, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel,
- ▶ 3:20:19 David Rosenthal Pixar and Disney animation are soaring.
- ▶ 3:21:13 David Rosenthal So, at Pixar and Disney Animation, they're in the midst of a major leadership transition.
- ▶ 3:28:27 David Rosenthal Now, Pixar proved to them that you can make sequels and they can be great.
- ▶ 3:28:34 Ben Gilbert Yeah, Pixar does one every seven years.
- ▶ 4:02:13 Ben Gilbert It is backed up by the numbers.
- ▶ 4:02:33 Ben Gilbert I don't think Pixar's gotten any worse at doing the Pixar thing.
- ▶ 4:11:40 Ben Gilbert My other one is that the three acquisitions, Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm, were brilliant.
- ▶ 4:12:52 David Rosenthal I think these franchises, whether it's core Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel, are just like luxury brands.
- ▶ 4:16:24 David Rosenthal Bluey is not Pixar.
- ▶ 4:16:25 David Rosenthal It's not at that scale, but it's so many echoes of Pixar right now.
- ▶ 4:17:29 David Rosenthal Nintendo is like Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm combined.
- ▶ 4:26:22 David Rosenthal Michael was the screenwriter for Toy Story three and shared this lecture on YouTube about how story works at Pixar.
- ▶ 4:26:50 David Rosenthal It's like an hour and 20 minutes of your time if you care at all about story or even just understanding what goes into making the magic of a Pixar movie.
- ▶ 4:30:20 David Rosenthal First to Nancy Lee, to Bob Iger, to Josh DeMauro, to Pete Docter, Jim Morris, and all the incredible folks who hosted us for the day at Pixar, including Danielle Feinberg, Catherine Serafian, and
- ▶ 4:30:37 David Rosenthal The incredible people who run the Pixar archives.
- ▶ 4:30:42 David Rosenthal To Kristen Bell, the voice of Anna in Frozen, who helped us think about Disney animation and Pixar.
- ▶ 4:31:47 Ben Gilbert Some other episodes you may like, the NFL, Coca-Cola, Vanguard, or if you're willing to dive very deep into the acquired back catalog, we've got Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm,
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:56 David Rosenthal Our very first episode, Pixar, done Lucasfilm, we've done Marvel, done ESPN.
- ▶ 4:12:24 Ben Gilbert Now that they own Pixar, or Aladdin, or Mickey Mouse, like, this is true vertical integration.
- ▶ 4:13:29 David Rosenthal Core Disney and Disney Animation and Pixar have been so disciplined over the years about metering out their content and the core delivery of that content on an infrequent enough basis that it doesn't dilute it.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:43:29 David Rosenthal Uh, it's, it's basically like, it's the Pixar.
- ▶ 2:43:31 David Rosenthal It's, it's, it's, think of it as Pixar of this generation.
- ▶ 2:44:41 David Rosenthal Uh, if you had told us 10 years ago when we made the Pixar episode that we'd be sitting down with Michael Lewis to analyze ourselves.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:25:51 David Rosenthal Vercel loves to paraphrase the famous line from Pixar's Ratatouille that, quote, everybody can cook.
- ▶ 2:25:58 David Rosenthal Which is an especially fun Easter egg for us since Pixar was our very first acquired episode.
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 54:01 Ben Gilbert She brought up the idea that it's kind of like Disney Imagineers, or almost like Pixar employees,
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:18:20 David Rosenthal I can't believe I hadn't seen it till now, is Coco, the Pixar movie.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:51:25 David Rosenthal And in reading just a little bit about it afterwards, you know how super sadly Pixar kind of fell off in recent years?
- ▶ 2:51:36 David Rosenthal I mean, they're still Pixar, but like, they're not Pixar.
- ▶ 2:51:43 David Rosenthal So Moana came out in this kind of generation with Tangled and some of the other stuff out of actual Disney animation after the Pixar acquisition that are just like,
Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:56 Mitch Lasky Alan, but they got Catmull, Alan Kay, so Catmull, who goes to Pixar, Alan Kay, who basically goes everywhere.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 36:23 Ben Gilbert Dude, when I listened back to our first few episodes, like Pixar and I'm like, we, it sounds like we were just talking at the computer.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 2:11:50 David Rosenthal I think it was equivalent to the, um, Pixar brain trust.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:28 Anu Hariharan And on continuity, it's Ali and I, Ali Rogani, who was the former CEO of Twitter and CFO of Pixar, so we both run the continuity fund.
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 2:45:39 David Rosenthal Like, it's just like, Hamilton uses Pixar as the canonical process power in the, um, I think in the, or is it cornered resource?
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