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David Rosenthal: belief

10 Aug 2026 Acquired Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire

“Starwave was basically a web developer that they, I think, paid a couple hundred million dollars for.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
10 Aug 2026
Publisher
Acquired

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…That's right, right here in Seattle. Yep. Starwave was basically a web developer that they, I think, paid a couple hundred million dollars for. Then they buy Infoseek, which was the seventh-place search engine. They then create a separate Disney internet assets tracking stock that they float— What?…

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