Ben Gilbert: preference

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…That was an experience like none other. To Kristen Bell, the voice of Anna in Frozen, who helped us think about Disney Animation and Pixar, to our friends Ravi Nandan at A24, Chase Carey at Liberty Media and FOX, and to Mitch Lasky at Benchmark, to Robbie Whelan at The Wall Street Journal, who has a book on Disney coming out later this year, also to Ben Fritz and Emily Nelson at The Wall Street Journal. And I know you have a list too. To Ed Catmull, who needs no introduction. To Jeffrey Katzenberg, same thing. To Bill Block, who formerly led Miramax, to Ben Thompson for his exceptional analysis of Disney over the last decade that inspired a lot of my thinking. I think I read every Strategery piece on the company to prepare for this. And lastly, to our friend Sean Bailey, former executive at Disney and led one of the studios there and has helped us with a bunch of episodes, but obviously this one was particularly close to home. So thank you so much, Sean. If you like this episode, go check out Disney Part 1 on Walt's life. Some other episodes you may like: the NFL, Coca-Cola, Vanguard, or if you're willing to dive very deep into the Acquired back catalog, we've got Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ESPN, BAMTech, a Disney+ episode from 2019. I may be forgetting some, but there's plenty of Disney sprinkled around in the Back Catalog. You can click the link in the show notes to get access to the companion PDF with visuals, charts, tables, and key illustrations from this episode. You can join the email list at acquired.fm/email to get access to all the photos that we talked about, and to learn a hint at what next episode will be. That's acquired.fm/email. Join the Slack at acquired.fm/slack. And with that, listeners, we'll see you next time. We'll see you next time. ‍…

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