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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 6:11 David Rosenthal Roy, Disney's son, Roy E.
- ▶ 11:34 David Rosenthal Yep, so in the wake of all that, in 1984, Roy Disney decides enough is enough.
- ▶ 11:40 David Rosenthal Together with the Bass Brothers, the new 25% shareholders, Roy and his business partner, Stanley Gold, who's also on the Disney board with him, they gang up and they finally force out Ron Miller
- ▶ 11:52 David Rosenthal As CEO, who again is Roy's cousin by marriage, married to Walt's daughter, and they do this via dramatic boardroom coup that happens on September seventh, 1984.
- ▶ 12:46 David Rosenthal He was the mentor of Stanley Gold, Roy Disney's, you know, business partner and fellow Disney board member now back at their old law firm.
- ▶ 17:49 David Rosenthal He was on the board of CalArts with Roy E.
- ▶ 23:45 Ben Gilbert Well, this is a Roy E.
- ▶ 23:48 Ben Gilbert Roy views his job as the keeper of Walt's vision and the keeper of the thing that made the company special, and the thing that made the company special was this ridiculous flywheel, for lack of a better term, that they had where you make…
- ▶ 24:24 Ben Gilbert And Roy's sitting here looking at the current business of singles and doubles and live action and being like, hey, we gotta do the Disney thing.
- ▶ 24:35 David Rosenthal Roy had made them promise not to fully kill animation, and then he had made them make him, Roy, chairman of the animation division, under Katzenberg, who's running all the studios.
- ▶ 34:57 Ben Gilbert This was really pushed by Roy E.
- ▶ 38:59 David Rosenthal Roy is opposed.
- ▶ 57:17 Ben Gilbert There were other perspectives, including from Roy E.
- ▶ 1:11:16 Ben Gilbert There's a Roy E.
- ▶ 1:22:56 David Rosenthal So all this, and you know, in animations, now without Katzenberg, uh, Roy E is still there, but a lot of the talent is bleeding out to DreamWorks.
- ▶ 1:26:25 David Rosenthal And then, just when it seemed that things couldn't get any worse at Disney in the years after nine 11, on November 30th, 2003, Roy E.
- ▶ 1:26:55 David Rosenthal Is it ever except this time it all plays out in public because Roy and Stanley gold, his business partner, who also resigns from the board would promptly turn around and launch a first of its kind public grassroots shareholder campaign…
- ▶ 1:31:14 Ben Gilbert This is about the resignation letter that Roy had written.
- ▶ 1:31:28 Ben Gilbert The first 10 years had been a success, he acknowledged, but the latter years had been defined by seven distinct failures, which Roy laid out point by point.
- ▶ 1:32:49 David Rosenthal Yeah, and then Roy ends the letter with, Michael, it is my sincere belief that it is you who should be leaving and not me.
- ▶ 1:33:07 David Rosenthal So what is Roy so upset about?
- ▶ 1:33:49 David Rosenthal But yeah, back to Roy and this Save Disney campaign.
- ▶ 1:33:52 David Rosenthal I mean, look, Roy, as we already talked about earlier, he's a complicated guy.
- ▶ 1:34:09 David Rosenthal What this is really about, and Roy's superpower for Disney, was that even if he wasn't, you know, the best executive or leader or in touch with the marketplace, as evidenced by the total flop of Fantasia, he absolutely was the steward and…
- ▶ 1:34:55 David Rosenthal Roy and Stanley had resigned in a huff from the board at the end of 2003, right at the holidays.
- ▶ 1:36:52 David Rosenthal Honestly, for Roy and for Stanley and their Save Disney campaign, it was the best thing that could have happened.
- ▶ 1:39:00 David Rosenthal The two major shareholder advisory services back the Save Disney campaign and Roy, and they advise shareholders
- ▶ 1:40:23 David Rosenthal But this doesn't, uh, placate Roy and Stanley in the Save Disney campaign.
- ▶ 2:17:08 Ben Gilbert Roy E.
- ▶ 2:35:02 David Rosenthal Once again, just like Bob made peace with Roy and instantly fixed that relationship, he pretty much instantly fixes the Steve Jobs relationship.
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- ▶ 1:53:16 Ben Gilbert And it's Roy E.