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López: Would not have reached Fox C-suite without accent coaching
“A thousand percent. I don't think I would have.”
Hernán López considers accent reduction coaching his highest-ROI career decision
“As far as time spent versus impact on my career, One of the best decisions I ever made, and I recommended this to so many people over the years.”
Bagdasarian Productions receives only two cents in royalties per Chipmunks DVD sold
“So unfortunately Fox will send you the thank you card because we get about two cents per DVD.”
Saban countered Fox's $500 million valuation of his stake at $2 billion
“They told me that they thought my share was worth half a billion. I told them that my share is worth two billion.”
Hernán López: Fox invested $250,000 in Wondery's seed round
“Fox, and so they put a, 250,000 dollar check.”
The 20th Century Fox Chipmunks movies generated over $2 billion in revenue
“Yeah, they, their box office is about a billion three hundred million. And if you include the DVD sales, it's over two billion dollars in revenue.”
Saban: Margaret Loesch told Murdoch replicating Saban would take five-plus years
“Well, he asked Margaret Lash, who was running Fox, he said, to duplicate what Chaim has done, including his international distribution and presence worldwide. How long will it take you? And she said, I can do it, but it might take me five years plus.”
López: A 2015 bank valuation pegged Fox International Channels at $10 billion
“There's a moment that I remember in 2015, there's this bank that generated or published a valuation of the whole company of Fox. It's called a sum of the parts valuation, where they go and value each part of the business. And there's FIC, which at the time had…”