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Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

10 Aug 2026 Acquired Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

“Could you run a high-quality skinny service that reaches, I don't know, 30 to 50 million people who really just want the straight drip of Disney, but also make hundreds of millions of dollars licensing that content elsewhere, but just kind of spreading it around to make sure that when you have a big thing that you think is the equivalent of a box office hit, you do release it on Netflix to their 350-ish million people.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
10 Aug 2026
Publisher
Acquired

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…Yep. But when you're making $10 billion out of the parks, and that's the IP that's feeding the parks, you damn sure need a way to make sure people see it. Yep. Could you have your cake and eat it too? Could you run a high-quality skinny service that reaches, I don't know, 30 to 50 million people who really just want the straight drip of Disney, but also make hundreds of millions of dollars licensing that content elsewhere, but just kind of spreading it around to make sure that when you have a big thing that you think is the equivalent of a box office hit, you do release it on Netflix to their 350-ish million people. That's the only other viable strategy that I could think of. Sounds like you ended up in the same spot.…

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