Ben Gilbert
Acquired
The Walt Disney Company
- Published
- June 22, 2026
- Duration
- 4h 31m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 23, 2026
Discusses investing.
Summary
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 …
Intelligent report
Sign in to read teasers, or upgrade to Research Pro to commission a new dossier for this episode. Learn more →
Show notes
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
Themes
- investing