Episode · Acquired · 2026-08-10
Books mentioned on Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
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, salivating over offers to sell off the film library to MGM and offload the parks to hotel operators.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Ride of a Lifetime
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger is a leadership memoir detailing the author's decades-long career at Disney, offering practical wisdom on management, work ethic, and corporate strategy.
Discussed“There's even a quote in Bob Iger's book which which we haven't talked about Bob yet but we will.”
