Mickey Mouse
other on 17 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 167 times in 47 episodes since 2016
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the Startup Ideas Podcast 8 
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2026 67 mentions in 8 episodes 8 per episode
- The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- Demis Is Out as DeepMind CEO, Revolut Founder Yacht Drama, AI’s Great Reverse Bank Run | Diet TBPN
- From $0 to $5M Per Month: How Dhar Mann Broke YouTube
- OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- AI Isn’t Covid, FBI probes Tai Lopez, Mistral’s $2B Sweden bet | Diet TBPN
- FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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2025 20 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- EP 13: Marketing Mayhem & Post Truth Branding ft. Dr. Kushal Sanghvi
- OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
- Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- I Failed 12 Times Before Making My First Million (Here's Every Failure)
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2024 38 mentions in 7 episodes 5 per episode
- The Biography of Walt Disney
- Walt Disney and Picasso
- How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- How to Persuade Anyone, Build Confidence & Become Influential | Expert Magician
- 25 Years Of Founder WISDOM In 55 Minutes (ft. Jason Fried)
- $250M Founder Reveals How The Rich Avoid Taxes (Legally) | ft. Ankur Nagpal
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2023 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
2022 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Will Meta Bounce Back? (with Nikita Bier) | Where It Happens | Bonus Episode
- Remember AI?
- How to Leverage Nostalgia and Win at Marketing with Danny Trinh
- How Did Mr. Beast Build a $1.5 BILLION Empire, the 5 Ways to Brainstorm Business Ideas and How to Hire FAQ
- HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
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2021 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2018 4 mentions in 1 episode
2017 7 mentions in 1 episode
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3 statements about Mickey Mouse, every show
Competing with entrenched incumbents requires orthogonal technological leapfrogging
“There's a great business model lesson in this, which is with the first two Mickeys flopping, if you just do the same thing as an existing competitor who already has distribution, brand, customers, It's not enough. You need to go do something leveraging a new p…”
Solano: Granting users commercial IP ownership unlocks Disney-level affinity faster
“And I think what we found is that when you do that, you're really empowering creators and the hive mind and the network effects and all of the benefits that you get from that are so much more powerful. Like you get to Disney levels of empathy and belovedness f…”
Sahil Bloom: Disney changed US IP law 7 to 8 times for Mickey Mouse
“I've written about Disney's IP coming into public domain and how Disney will fight to the death to maintain their, they've actually changed IP law in the U S on like seven or eight occasions to avoid Mickey mouse coming into the public domain.”