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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:51 Ben Gilbert One of the four major U.S. broadcast networks, ABC.
- ▶ 2:22 Ben Gilbert Despite being one of America's most storied and stable brands, the company is going through a time of immense upheaval.
- ▶ 38:55 David Rosenthal You know, it's high penetration in U.S. households.
- ▶ 43:56 David Rosenthal So, they build more than 750 Disney stores, retail stores, in, in, like, basically every mall in America.
- ▶ 44:12 David Rosenthal And on the weekends, these American families, they go to the mall, they go to the Disney store, they buy the merch, they revel in all this Disney, like, it is back to the peak of Disney under Walt, where it just takes over America,…
- ▶ 53:52 David Rosenthal One in three of the world's banks and five of the 10 largest health insurers in the United States.
- ▶ 1:05:25 David Rosenthal the broadcast networks used to have this monopoly on television content in America.
- ▶ 1:05:29 David Rosenthal Now, all of a sudden here in the nineties, cable and pay TV is just this explosion of content in America and the broadcast networks are under threat.
- ▶ 1:24:50 David Rosenthal Fairly quickly thereafter, they're forced to close the vast majority of the Disney retail stores that they had opened in malls across America.
- ▶ 1:36:34 David Rosenthal There were practically no more hated, you know, genre of corporations in America.
- ▶ 1:36:47 David Rosenthal And that they would be taking over with stock this treasure of America.
- ▶ 1:38:01 Ben Gilbert The beauty of the cable bundle is that nearly every household in America paid for it every single month, regardless of whether or not Disney had a hit TV show or a must-watch sporting event.
- ▶ 2:20:08 Ben Gilbert It made twenty-nine million in its opening weekend, went on to become the number one film in the U.S., and it was the first ever animated film
- ▶ 2:59:37 David Rosenthal Basically is all of America.
- ▶ 3:51:06 Ben Gilbert A little under half of those are in the US and Canada.
- ▶ 3:55:34 Ben Gilbert So if you live in the U.S., get excited because there's lots of new, ah, rides and lots of new lands that are opening.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:46 David Rosenthal And that would go on to drive not only the rest of his life, but the company, the studio, the movies, I mean, change America.
- ▶ 19:34 David Rosenthal Charlie Chaplin is the big star in America and around the world, the big movie star right now in the silent era, and most of his movies are exactly what you described, Ben.
- ▶ 1:00:18 David Rosenthal It gets published daily in 60 US newspapers and then also internationally in 20 more countries around the world.
- ▶ 1:09:02 Ben Gilbert And wasn't it the most popular watch in America?
- ▶ 1:15:07 Ben Gilbert If they saturate all of America or all of the English speaking world with a character, then
- ▶ 1:51:29 David Rosenthal The New York Times actually writes this, that quote, sales of Snow White products might be America's path out of the depression.
- ▶ 2:12:36 Ben Gilbert And you've got, like, a major figurehead of a big US corporation testifying.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 2:13:32 Ben Gilbert You've got Europe dropping even before the U.S. enters the war.
- ▶ 2:14:26 Ben Gilbert Now the U.S. enters the war.
- ▶ 2:14:28 David Rosenthal One more note on Fantasia, though, uh, before we talk about the impact of the U.S. entering the war, do you know what ultimately ended up happening with Fantasia?
- ▶ 2:15:51 David Rosenthal No sooner does Roy settle the strike than Pearl Harbor happens, and the U.S. now enters World War II.
- ▶ 2:18:36 David Rosenthal So all of the studio production work during the US's time as an active participant in World War II, yeah, basically just gets repurposed to propaganda and training materials for the government.
- ▶ 2:35:10 Ben Gilbert Which is why Marceline existed, and there's this, like, deep-seated psyche around trains and small-town America.
- ▶ 2:56:20 David Rosenthal Avuncular Walt Disney beaming into living rooms around America.
- ▶ 3:02:42 David Rosenthal And America goes nuts.
- ▶ 3:03:23 David Rosenthal Even better, the theme song, the ballad of Davy Crockett, you know, King of the Wild Frontier, reaches number one on the billboard charts in America and sells seven million records.
- ▶ 3:09:41 Ben Gilbert The team at WED had been getting inspiration and sort of concepting and iterating while all the ABC stuff is happening, while the hype building around America is happening, and of course while the financial negotiations are, are happening.
- ▶ 3:11:06 Ben Gilbert Other WED employees, meanwhile, start traveling all over the US looking at the best existing theme parks.
- ▶ 3:11:21 Ben Gilbert Much more pleasant, less carnival-like, safer, kind of a less seedy experience than you are getting in theme parks in the US.
- ▶ 3:13:01 Ben Gilbert This thing is like Walt's fever dream reflection of America, all in the most idealized, safe, clean, cheery way possible.
- ▶ 3:18:46 Ben Gilbert Which means that nearly half of America watched this broadcast.
- ▶ 3:19:01 Ben Gilbert On the other hand, you've been conditioned over the last year by one of the most popular television programs in America that this is going to be a giant deal, so you better be watching when it happens.
- ▶ 3:19:22 David Rosenthal Art Linklater, Bob Cummings, and future president of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan.
- ▶ 3:19:33 Ben Gilbert What does half of America tune into anymore?
- ▶ 3:19:37 David Rosenthal Yeah, I mean, even the Super Bowl today, which is the biggest television event in America,
- ▶ 3:19:42 David Rosenthal Only gets about 40% of U.S. households tuning in.
- ▶ 3:19:52 David Rosenthal No, I think it was that America had been primed via the TV show for the whole past year, that this was gonna be the event of 1955.
- ▶ 3:20:26 David Rosenthal It's like the most popular park in America is now Disneyland.
- ▶ 3:23:39 Ben Gilbert So Roy was like great at making sure it wouldn't financially bankrupt the company, but Walt was sort of betting that reputation extremely publicly to half the households in the US.
- ▶ 3:49:42 David Rosenthal R&D offices for America's greatest companies.
- ▶ 4:25:52 David Rosenthal Unfortunately, that leads to C, which is Volvo just canceled it in the U.S. right after I got it.
- ▶ 4:26:02 David Rosenthal You can no longer buy it in the U.S., but you can internationally.
Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07 Ben Gilbert The company is Vanguard, who effectively created the first index fund for individual investors in 1975, and today is the largest provider of index funds in the United States.
- ▶ 1:35 Ben Gilbert Vanguard is the largest shareholder of most U.S. corporations, and together with the other big index funds like BlackRock, State Street, and Fidelity, they own 24% of the entire U.S. stock market.
- ▶ 5:32 David Rosenthal Well, we start in May of 1929, on the eve of the Great Wall Street crash of October 1929, that would throw America and the world into the Great Depression, wipe out millions of family savings, ruin countless lives, forever scar an entire…
- ▶ 8:07 David Rosenthal And their grandfather had then founded a company which would go on to become part of the American Can Company, which manufactured tin cans and was one of the largest companies in America for a long time.
- ▶ 33:25 David Rosenthal Yes, and the go-go years, which really were this, like, violent reaction to all the pent-up conservatism and prudence and austerity that had dominated Wall Street and finance for America and the world through the Depression and through…
- ▶ 46:21 David Rosenthal Not quite Great Depression levels, but you and I, Ben, have also never lived through anything like the 19 seventies in the U.S.
- ▶ 1:12:42 David Rosenthal What will happen to corporate governance when 70% of the equity ownership of America's companies are all in passive index funds?
- ▶ 1:16:09 David Rosenthal An aspiration of America.
- ▶ 1:27:37 Ben Gilbert If you own the S&P 500 or you own the entire U.S. stock market, in the long run, they're going to be nearly identical returns.
- ▶ 1:45:48 David Rosenthal All U.S. stocks.
- ▶ 2:10:49 David Rosenthal The face and the spirit of Vanguard to all of the millions of fans and diehards around America and around the world, but he will no longer be on the board.
- ▶ 2:17:11 Ben Gilbert So the ownership of equities in America went from that one to two percent pre Great Depression to 4.2% in 1949.
- ▶ 2:41:53 Ben Gilbert BlackRock is the largest AUM asset manager in the world with, uh, more international and institutional client base than Vanguard's US individual approach.
- ▶ 2:58:15 Ben Gilbert And so, so much more of the innovation engine of the American economy is happening in private markets.
- ▶ 3:04:33 Ben Gilbert And their investor capital is in the US.
- ▶ 3:23:44 Ben Gilbert Suddenly they have voting control over those companies, and it's a big responsibility to decide how they're going to vote those.
- ▶ 3:24:02 David Rosenthal It's like, we've turned the board of directors of every company into an election on the order of like a, you know, US political election.
- ▶ 3:34:11 David Rosenthal The world and America should erect a statue to Jack Bogle.
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:35 David Rosenthal The Ford Motor Company over in America.
- ▶ 23:27 Ben Gilbert selling cars to the U.S. and around the world, as we will soon get to, from those early days.
- ▶ 36:42 David Rosenthal An Italian, but one who spent the war not in Europe, but in exile in America.
- ▶ 36:51 David Rosenthal The man who brings Ferrari to America.
- ▶ 37:09 David Rosenthal And when the war is over, Luigi goes back to Italy to visit Enzo, and he tells him about America.
- ▶ 37:22 David Rosenthal Canetti described the miracle that was America, the aggressiveness of its people, their childlike acquisitiveness, and their bourgeois credulities.
- ▶ 38:34 David Rosenthal But it is true, Luigi definitely convinced Enzo about America, and America was critical for Ferrari.
- ▶ 43:28 David Rosenthal You get a sense of, like, who are the customers in America.
- ▶ 45:38 David Rosenthal All anybody knows and all anybody in America definitely knows is a Ferrari just won Le Mans.
- ▶ 1:10:46 Ben Gilbert Ken Miles, who is a very famous race car driver, actually on the Ford and Shelby, the US side that we'll talk about here shortly, his quote on this is, I'd rather die in a racing car than get eaten up by cancer.
- ▶ 1:12:15 David Rosenthal So throughout the late fifties, sales of Ferrari two fifties are just ramping, you know, they are flying out of showrooms across the world, and particularly in America.
- ▶ 1:12:36 David Rosenthal And I believe at this point, distribution is sort of roughly divided a third, a third, a third between local Italian clients, American clients, and then the rest of Europe.
- ▶ 1:15:36 Ben Gilbert So, the Deuce, over in America, gets word, weirdly, through their German subsidiary, that a mysterious letter has arrived from the German consulate in Milan,
- ▶ 1:23:55 Ben Gilbert And when you look at the actual deal, this, this blew my mind, David, if you do the lira to US dollar exchange rate in 1969,
- ▶ 2:15:38 David Rosenthal But there is a connection, and you know, we're happy to sell you a Quattroporte if you want it, or a Gran Turismo if you want it, and, ah, that's what they do, and so this is when the Quattroporte, the Maserati Quattroporte, launches in…
- ▶ 2:23:07 David Rosenthal Like, it's, it was popular in the U.S., but if you live in Europe, you saw the Fiat 500 all over cities throughout Europe.
- ▶ 2:24:57 David Rosenthal All of the U.S. car companies are in really bad shape.
- ▶ 2:25:30 David Rosenthal The big three automakers in the U.S., yes.
- ▶ 2:26:48 David Rosenthal There is one cost to taking over Chrysler, which was that in doing so, Fiat had to assume Chrysler's debt, including about five and a half billion dollars that it owed the U.S. and Canadian governments for the bailout.
- ▶ 3:28:44 David Rosenthal It's easy for us sitting here in the U.S. to have a perspective of like, ah, why are they continuing this EV thing?
- ▶ 3:28:58 David Rosenthal Easy for U.S.-based, uh, collectors to, and petrol heads to, you know, maybe be upset about this and not understand it.
- ▶ 3:29:12 David Rosenthal In America, EVs are in a bit of a slump, but in much of the rest of the world, Chinese EVs are dominating.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07 Ben Gilbert It eventually became the sport of rich guys who want to own teams to gallivant around Europe, losing colossal sums of money along the way, and in fact, David, since the sport began, over 100 separate teams have entered and exited the…
- ▶ 3:59 Ben Gilbert So we've got new regulations, which means all new car designs, an expansion to an 11th team with Cadillac, Audi and Ford are also entering the sport, and a brand new broadcast partner in the U.S. in Apple TV.
- ▶ 24:25 David Rosenthal Enzo's also hand-making cars for all the European royalty and all the American movie stars that are flowing through F-One.
- ▶ 41:23 David Rosenthal If you look over at the NFL in America, they're already making like fifty million plus a year in broadcast rights.
- ▶ 51:45 David Rosenthal Very far behind the U.S. in terms of monetization and sophistication of televising, sports especially, but any kind of media.
- ▶ 51:56 David Rosenthal I mean, again, these are mostly like the equivalent of PBS in the U.S.
- ▶ 56:47 David Rosenthal So one of the reasons why America was farther ahead in developing the television market is that
- ▶ 56:52 David Rosenthal Cable and pay TV had become a thing earlier in America.
- ▶ 56:56 David Rosenthal And so there's just a lot more bidders for content out there in America.
- ▶ 1:36:01 David Rosenthal so SLEC was short for Slavica Eccleston, and float it in a dual listed IPO in the US and England with an anticipated valuation of around four billion dollars.
- ▶ 1:43:54 David Rosenthal So this German company, em.tv, they had just previously bought the Jim Henson company in the U S which of course makes the Muppets and they were just trying to roll up all of these media properties and they were going to bring them into the
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