WED Enterprises

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2026 by Ben Gilbert · said 15 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Jun 23, 2026
Assertion Supported
Retlaw received $121 million from Disney Productions for attractions and royalties
“Insanely, Wed Enterprises, which would later be Rett Law, got a total of seventy-five million dollars in checks from Walt Disney Productions for the Disneyland Railroad and for the monorail, between 1953 and 1981, and another forty six million for name royalti…”
Ben Gilbert Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 3:27:41 The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
Jun 23, 2026 positive
Insight
Walt Disney assigned creatives to unfamiliar challenges expecting them to adapt
“This gives you a sense of Walt's leadership style. He would take a talented creative person and he'd be perfectly willing to assign them to things that they've never done before and say, yeah, you'll figure it out.”
Ben Gilbert Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 2:42:13 The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
Jun 23, 2026
Assertion Supported
Disney's board gave Walt a cost-plus contract for Disneyland in 1953
“In 1953 in April, Walt Disney Productions board of directors, this is a public company, agreed to a personal services contract with Walt and contracts with WED to design and build the Disneyland park attractions. This is done as a cost plus contract.”
Ben Gilbert Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 2:46:51 The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
Jun 23, 2026
Assertion Supported
Walt Disney's private firm WED Enterprises owned the Disneyland Railroad outright
“So Wed, which Walt is the 100% shareholder of, actually owned the railroad outright.”
Ben Gilbert Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 3:25:56 The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
Jun 23, 2026
Assertion Supported
Walt Disney formed a private entity to build Disneyland after board rejection
“He is the Walt Disney who Has come up with a crazy new idea based on his obsessive hobby with model trains that the board of Disney Studios has basically rejected. And so he has gone full crackpot like Colonel Kurtz style and started his own separate company o…”
David Rosenthal Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 2:42:32 The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
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