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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 17:02 David Rosenthal To team up with Rupert Murdoch and launch Fox.
- ▶ 3:12:10 David Rosenthal And then he gets a call from Rupert Murdoch.
- ▶ 3:12:14 David Rosenthal And Rupert says that he and Fox are obviously going through the same strategic reviews and exercises as Disney and every other media company.
- ▶ 3:12:22 David Rosenthal And Rupert has concluded that the best path forward for Fox is to combine with Disney and lend its scale, its content, and its efforts to Disney's first party streaming service to compete with Netflix.
- ▶ 3:13:43 David Rosenthal Now, you said Rupert and Fox ran some analysis on their library vis-a-vis streaming.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:44:56 David Rosenthal Chase helped Rupert launch Fox Sports and built the whole
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:03 Ben Gilbert Philip Morris, Rupert Murdoch, Reliance, Tata, and even Google, there's a very, very complicated founder figure.
- ▶ 11:08 David Rosenthal There's News Corp out there and Rupert Murdoch.
- ▶ 11:11 David Rosenthal And Rupert, of course, really built the television side of News Corp, put Fox on the back of two things.
- ▶ 11:40 David Rosenthal And Rupert's going around looking for how he's going to run this playbook in India.
- ▶ 11:54 David Rosenthal And it just so happens that he thinks he can actually get the rights to broadcast Indian national cricket pretty darn cheaply.
- ▶ 12:48 David Rosenthal So, Rupert hoovers up these rights pretty cheaply, and all of a sudden, Star is now the place to watch cricket in India.
- ▶ 13:41 David Rosenthal The National Cricket Board is called the BCCI, the Board for the Control of Cricket in India, and they say, hey, you sold these pretty cheaply to Rupert.
- ▶ 14:56 David Rosenthal So we've been talking about how these early cricket rights here in the nineties, Starr and Murdoch, they're able to get them super cheap.
- ▶ 19:58 David Rosenthal Rupert Murdoch is kind of a, you know, sore loser here that Lalit came in and increased the money that he had to spend for these cricket rights, ultimately had to merge with ESPN.
- ▶ 21:02 David Rosenthal And in his mind, Rupert Murdoch is the reason that this happened.
- ▶ 21:07 Ben Gilbert Rupert stole it away from the Modi family.
- ▶ 21:15 David Rosenthal And thus begins a 10 to 15 year journey that is not just the ultimate revenge play by Lalit on Rupert, but accidentally along the way starts the biggest sports entrepreneurial story phenomenon that has ever existed.
- ▶ 23:27 David Rosenthal So the net of it is, Lalit's got this blood vendetta against not just News Corp and Star, but like Rupert Murdoch personally, specifically.
- ▶ 23:54 David Rosenthal He needs to take that away from Rupert.
- ▶ 39:09 David Rosenthal So then he sets up a personal meeting with Rupert Murdoch, who at this point in time, via star, has all the TV rights to Indian international cricket.
- ▶ 41:56 Ben Gilbert Okay, David, so Rupert Murdoch.
- ▶ 42:08 David Rosenthal He sets up a personal meeting with Rupert Murdoch, and he sets the meeting for a friendly Friday afternoon tea.
- ▶ 42:25 David Rosenthal Lalit walks in, sits down, and says, Mr.
- ▶ 42:46 David Rosenthal And Murdoch, like, basically spits his tea out.
- ▶ 42:49 David Rosenthal He's like, uh, you're crazy.
- ▶ 42:54 David Rosenthal So obviously he's offended by that, but he's like, who are you and why do you think this is gonna work?
- ▶ 43:09 David Rosenthal Rupert's like, who's gonna bid on this?
- ▶ 45:00 David Rosenthal Like, if you got cricket, you're the number one sports channel in India, and Star and Rupert are out in the cold.
- ▶ 46:11 David Rosenthal And by the way, he shut Rupert Murdoch out of all of it.
- ▶ 1:42:20 David Rosenthal Rupert Murdoch, I had blacklisted.
- ▶ 1:42:24 David Rosenthal So I blacklisted Rupert Murdoch.
- ▶ 2:55:50 David Rosenthal Rupert Murdoch.
- ▶ 2:55:52 David Rosenthal Rupert finally, finally, after, what are we now?
- ▶ 3:00:15 David Rosenthal Before that, though, the other piece of this Star deal, new deal for IPL, was because A, it was a much bigger investment, and Star and Rupert were dying to get back into Indian cricket, and now you've got this mobile streaming opportunity…
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 9:28 Dara Khosrowshahi Paramount first, and then he ran Fox for Murdoch.