Bob Iger

“So during his CEO audition process, Bob Iger had completely lost faith that Disney animation can be fixed from within. And secretly he concludes that the only viable path to restore Disney animation to its proper glory is to replace the entire leadership team.…”

“Disney's market cap is up four X to two hundred billion dollars up from the fifty billion dollars when Bob took over. Overall revenue grows from thirty two billion to fifty two billion. Operating income goes from 4.7 to 14.7 billion.”

“Ultimately, I kind of think they just chose the wrong guy in Bob Chapek, and I think Iger's mistake in recommending Bob Chapek for the job was thinking that the company was about to enter a peacetime.”

“Revenue tripled from thirty one billion in 2005 to 94,000,000,020 years later, and net income went from 2.5 billion to 12.4 billion. So interestingly, net income outpaced revenue. They became five times more profitable while generating three times more revenue…”

“Bob Iger starts the conversation by saying, I've got a crappy hand, can we talk? And for him, it's like, that's a show of honesty that's unusual. David Senra: Usually you don't start a negotiation by saying, hey, other party, you have all the leverage here. …”

“Bob, Decided to come up as soon as, you know, he was made the CEO. He came up to Pixar, and, ah, the idea was to spend a day with us, ah, seeing what we were doing, how we thought about things, and what we had in the works. And when he came, he walked up our w…”

“Iger says, I'll pay you every fucking dime, no matter how much COVID lasts, whether you do no events, or you put on all 44.”

“ESPN fires John Skipper, who was always shining me on that he wanted it. He never wanted it. Bob Iger and Kevin Mayer say we want it cause we're going to go direct.”

“Like we were meeting with Disney and Bob Iger. They didn't know that we were only six people and like, we didn't really even have the tech stack to support. That kind of traffic.”

“Or I floated you know, that Bob Iger would be a good person to run next time for mayor of LA.”

“Oh, that's so funny. Yeah, no, that's not true. So I didn't sell anything.”

“They hired Bob Iger at 37, and before that, he had spent his entire career in broadcast sports, and they hired him to assume responsibility for ABC Entertainment.”

“I didn't watch it yet, but I knew about that because we reported in the information that that was the moment when they demoed it to Bob Iger.”

“I keep hearing from people, you know, mutual people I know who know Bob Iger very well, that he's like very serious about running for president.”

“Well, I think a lot of companies are pretty good, but you can't confidently say what's going to happen because you may get some guy like Iger in that just wants to push everything and do the right public relations. So no matter how good the business is, it'll …”

“So I said, I wonder if I could get Bob Iger on the phone, and He's also been very generous with his, you know, when I can squeeze him for an hour or 15 minutes here and there.”

“The other thing we know he's doing is they're trying to find, like, co-owners and going to the leagues. And the leagues were apparently like, no, we're good. We got our own thing.”

“Disney actually looked at buying Twitter in 20 2016. I think they had a term sheet, everything was ready, and then Iger, like, woke up one day and was like, I don't want to deal with this fucking, I don't want to deal with the moderation bullshit that's going …”

“This is why Bob Iger did not buy Twitter. And I think he made one of the great calls of all time. And he was like, you know what? I don't want to deal with this shit. And he was right.”

“He had this Incredible ability to one day, like, conduct high-end diplomacy for Disneyland Shanghai, and then the next day, debate the finer points of The Sims with me, and I was like, how is this possible?”

“When we sold Platum into Disney, a lot of that was, hey, consumers are spending different amounts of time with different types of media. We gotta understand this, and I think that was Bob who leaned in”

“Bob Iger, the former CEO of Disney, he would read Matt Ball's stuff to think in a smarter way about Disney”

“Yeah, literally what does Bob Iger want, and they said he really wants a medical show, and I thought, okay.”

“I mean, they, I think under Bob Iger's leadership, and then Alan Horn, who was my partner at Warner Brothers before he went over to Disney, I mean, they went out and cornered the market between Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars with Lucasfilms, and have now, you kn…”

“I was having a conversation with Brian from Ample Hills Creamery, and he was sort of telling the story of how they wound up in, in Disney World, and they launched a retail location in Disney largely because the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, Found them in a Wall Str…”