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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: observation
10 Aug 2026 Acquired Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
“Jack Dorsey happens to also be on the Disney board at the time. So they basically get all the way to a deal.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 10 Aug 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Everything else is just too big. I mean, these are giant market cap companies. Too big, too expensive. Jack Dorsey happens to also be on the Disney board at the time. So they basically get all the way to a deal. And then at the last minute, Bob backs out. He just, like, can't imagine Disney owning and operating Twitter. And that was probably the right decision. I think it was all papered and they were going to sign Monday morning and announce it, right?…
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