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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 5:50 David Rosenthal Epcot has just launched in Florida, not as Walt Disney's utopian dream of a city of the future, but as a massively over budget and underwhelming World's Fair knockoff that the company has sunk hundreds of millions of dollars deep into debt…
- ▶ 48:38 David Rosenthal It goes from, ah, yeah, we got Disney World, and we got Epcot, and sure, come to Florida.
- ▶ 1:13:30 Ben Gilbert It was actually part of the problems they were going through in 83, along with Epcot cost overruns.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:49 David Rosenthal This is the trip that ultimately results in the, uh, Disney film Saludos Amigos and the Three Caballeros, if you've seen those or been to the Three Caballeros ride in, uh, Disney World and Epcot.
- ▶ 3:42:37 David Rosenthal Maybe like an experimental prototype community of tomorrow.
- ▶ 3:42:46 David Rosenthal You know, Epcot.
- ▶ 3:42:49 Ben Gilbert And if you think you know what we're talking about because you've been to Epcot,
- ▶ 3:42:55 Ben Gilbert That's a theme park named Epcot, but Walt had this insane, insane vision that never got built, but got pretty far along in the process for, again, a fever dream, not just of a place that you go for a day, but a place where you live and you…
- ▶ 3:50:03 David Rosenthal And then four, most important, the heart of the whole project is Epcot.
- ▶ 3:50:10 David Rosenthal But again, not the Epcot you know today.
- ▶ 3:50:12 David Rosenthal So, Walt's Epcot was going to be, in his own words, a living blueprint of the future where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world.
- ▶ 3:54:26 David Rosenthal So in late October of 1966, Walt records a film of a pitch, a full reveal for the Epcot vision.
- ▶ 3:55:58 David Rosenthal Finally, in November of 1966, so right after recording the Epcot pitch video,
- ▶ 3:56:38 David Rosenthal Right in the middle of this Epcot thing.
- ▶ 3:58:18 David Rosenthal Full approval from the Florida State Legislature to build Epcot, to build Walt Disney World.
- ▶ 3:59:44 David Rosenthal So it's just the Magic Kingdom, there's no city, there's no Epcot, there's no airport, there's no industrial park.
IPO Giga Boom, World’s Fairs of the Past | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:15 unnamed speaker Disney World has like, uh, you know, legacy rights, because when they set up EPCOT, which is an acronym, which I should look up because what does it stand for? 3 times in the scene
Moonlake: Interactive, Multimodal World Models — with Chris Manning and Fan-yun Sun
- ▶ 1:06:21 unnamed speaker I mean, you know, it's a small world or it's a, like the Epcot center with all the little
Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
- ▶ 44:03 Shyam Sankar Epcot was all about painting an optimistic vision of the future, and what technology was gonna be like, and the stories of, of heroes, and, you know, that, that there was both 2 times in the scene
His SWAG Method Turns Wild Guesses Into Quarterly Wins
- ▶ 16:24 Skip Wilson And actually a similar, a similar sort of thing happened at, at Epcot of all places, Epcot, Disney World, um, where there's this thing called drinking around the world. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 13:35 David Senra He knows he's dying and he's going over drawings for Epcot.
Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
- ▶ 48:36 Marc Andreessen Uh, you know, Walt, Walt Disney actually had this vision for, they actually had this thing, um, called Epcot, um, the experimental prototype city of tomorrow. 4 times in the scene
How to Become a Super Ball with Anthony Scaramucci | Where It Happens
- ▶ 27:48 Anthony Scaramucci Because now you're talking about global exhibition, and you're talking about figuring out a way to get at least the 15 or 20 industrial nations involved, and so you're creating a mini Epcot.
Unbundling Disney, Why CNN is Just Like the WWE, YouTube Creator Camps, and More
- ▶ 25:59 Shaan Puri He's like, he created this thing called Epcot, which, uh, I don't know if you've ever heard of Epcot, but Epcot is basically 6 times in the scene
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017)
- ▶ 5:43 Gary Hirshberg And then from there, she became the senior buyer for Disney for the Epcot Center when they built that.
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg
- ▶ 4:12 Gary Hirshberg There was lots of, uh, battling over alimony, which, for money that didn't exist, so she wound up becoming a buyer for a local family-owned hotel chain, actually close friends of ours, which eventually sold to Sheraton, and, and, and…