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Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
- ▶ 37:31 Eric Brooks It is Disney, The Gap, Forbes, Google, Verizon, Brinks, you name it, across the spectrum.
Will Guidara – Unreasonable Hospitality (EP.492)
- ▶ 21:43 Will Guidara My daughter speaking to the building that the Breakers is in, because it looks like a Disney castle.
Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- ▶ 13:20 Katelin Holloway I had the privilege of meeting Steve later in his career, before the Disney merger acquisition, after he was sick.
- ▶ 23:15 Katelin Holloway I knew that after we were acquired by Disney, and we finally got incepted into that machine.
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 45:07 Mason Morfit There are analogous lessons from the Roblox matching systems and algorithms and how they've used AI to pair you with something that some creator has made is super relevant for Disney thinking about how to match viewers to a TV show or from…
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 1:08:52 Michael Ovitz To go to Disney with the hopes of spending five to six years running a public company, and then I wanted to get involved in the State Department, because I love negotiating, and I wanted to have a job working in the State Department. 2 times in the scene
Ben Hunt - The Stories that Drive Markets (EP.393)
Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
- ▶ 22:07 Michael Milken And the average P.E. ratio was 66 times of these great companies, and many of them were great, like Disney and Walmart, but many of them were Polaroid and Kodak and others.
Raphael Arndt – The Death of Traditional Portfolio Construction? (EP.365)
- ▶ 51:16 Raphael Arndt I'm quite fanatical about Disney theme parks, actually, and I enjoy going sometimes on my own. 2 times in the scene
David Abrams – Sports Ecosystem Investing at Velocity (Capital Allocators, EP. 303)
- ▶ 42:25 David Abrams Which was pretty entrepreneurial when it first got acquired ultimately by Disney. 4 times in the scene
Colin Campbell – The Case for Environmental Markets (Climate Solutions EP.3, Capital Allocators EP.302)
- ▶ 7:55 Colin Campbell So, uh, ended up exploring a couple of different job opportunities and got some really unique offers, including an opportunity to go into the business world, doing sort of a strategy role at the Walt Disney company. 2 times in the scene
Sachin Khajuria – Two and Twenty, An Insider's Take on Private Equity (Capital Allocators, EP.285)
- ▶ 26:24 Sachin Khajuria They'll have a sense of like, you know, should I be buying Disney?
- ▶ 43:07 Sachin Khajuria If you're an investor in Apple or Disney or any of these other great stocks,
Brent Montgomery – The Disney Flywheel at Wheelhouse (Capital Allocators, EP.265)
- ▶ 18:08 Brent Montgomery Nobody's better, in our estimation, than Disney, but nobody's really thought of all the different ways they could do that in-house at a modern-day studio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:30 Brent Montgomery If you've ever seen the Disney flywheel, it's pretty easy. 2 times in the scene
Rob Citrone – Emerging Markets, Hedge Funds, and Staying in the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.261)
- ▶ 45:22 Rob Citrone And I think it's one of the reasons that we live in Disney. 2 times in the scene
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 15:45 Stephen McKeon You could see Yuga basically becoming a web three version of Disney, and all of it is going to trace back to these holders of the original board eight pictures.
Chris Voss – Listening, Human Nature, and Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.252)
- ▶ 30:04 Chris Voss I noticed another thing in looking through your book, one of the books you recommended is Iger's book, The Rite of a Lifetime, about Disney. 8 times in the scene
Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- ▶ 21:23 Doc O'Connor Disney owned the Angels and the Ducks, and Fox owned the Dodgers.
Todd Boehly - The Next Berkshire Hathaway at Eldridge (Capital Allocators, EP. 223)
- ▶ 26:07 Todd Boehly Whether it's Walt Disney or Comcast or these companies that are all two hundred and fifty billion dollar plus all borrow money at three percent.
- ▶ 30:27 Todd Boehly Maybe you end up with Comcast, and of course, Sinclair bought the old regional sports networks from Disney that they acquired when they bought Fox, but there's no leverage in a conversation when they're one-offs.
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 11:59 Paula Volent And it was great, and so then when school came back, I went back to Yale, to SOM, but I worked part-time at the investment office, as you remember, all my way through school, and so then I was graduating, and I got a job at Disney, and my…
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 11:17 Jeff Hausenbold And for eBay and then became an innovator in online marketing, built the largest affiliate program in the world, and went on to do over a hundred business development deals with the likes of Disney and Home Depot and Dell and Lexmark and…
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 31:09 Chris Dixon The information superhighway was Microsoft, Disney, Comcast, which was to have these big centralized systems and you would go buy a box and they would have these video on demand stuff and a bunch of like, it'd be like this little play pen,…
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 8:28 Gregory Zuckerman He was going to take over at Disney, and Disney said, no, Zuckerman, you're wrong. 2 times in the scene
Matt Botein – Flexible Investing and Institutional Challenges (Capital Allocators, EP.88)
- ▶ 6:20 Matt Botein Strategy and went to Walt Disney and then Boston Consulting Group before going to business school.
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 42:56 Chris Douvos But, you know, we have these soft robots that are actually, you know, kind of made of nylon agitated by air, like think of Baymax in, ah, in the, what is that, Disney movie, Big Hero Six, right?