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David Rosenthal: belief

22 Jun 2026 Acquired The Walt Disney Company

“I think more than anything else, like through Disney films and Looney Tunes and Warner Brothers, I was just sitting there like, man, I feel like I should be watching some animation right now.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Jun 2026
Publisher
Acquired

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…It was a short window. And like, man, I get Chinese EVs now. This is a really, really good car for not a lot of money. Okay, my second carve-out is the San Francisco Symphony. Jennie and I went the other night. They have a new music director coming in, Elim Chan, and this was her first performance since being named music director. She's awesome. She's 39 years old. She's so much fun and so much energy. And going to the symphony, which I hadn't been in forever, made me realize that actually through classical animation, I got a ton of exposure to classical music growing up. I think more than anything else, like through Disney films and Looney Tunes and Warner Brothers, I was just sitting there like, man, I feel like I should be watching some animation right now. Awesome. All right. Well, we have got some thank yous to people who helped us with our research, but first to our partners this season. J.P. Morgan, trusted, reliable payments infrastructure for your business, no matter the scale, jpmorgan.com/acquired. To Vercel, the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build and scale fast, secure applications on the web, vercel.com/acquired. To ServiceNow, the platform that puts AI to work for people, servicenow.com/acquired. And Statsig, bringing experimentation, feature flags, and product analytics into one unified system for product teams, statsig.com/acquired. Thanks to all four of these companies for being awesome partners with us this Season as we wrap here with this finale and leave you with a cliffhanger here over the summer when we'll be back for our Fall Season in August.…

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