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The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio)

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The Walt Disney Company is the most successful enterprise ever created for monetizing human nostalgia. Today it's the king of global entertainment, holding the intellectual property rights to the childhood memories of billions of people (including, likely, all of you) and is a reliable, predictable profitable business. But it didn't start that way. During Walt's era, Disney operated like an unhinged moonshot factory, blowing its finances on one seemingly crazy project after another, like the very first feature-length animated film or a theme park inspired by Walt's fascination with model train

ESPN Funded the Disney You Love

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How Big Was Frozen?

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Why Steve Jobs Bought Pixar

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How Pixar Actually Makes a Movie

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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire (Audio)

In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while corporate raiders circled,

Walt Disney's Unfinished Sci-Fi City: The REAL EPCOT

EPCOT wasn't supposed to be just another theme park. Walt Disney's original, wild vision was for a 50-acre, climate-controlled sci-fi city where people actually lived. He spent his entire life escalat