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Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by Austin_Conlon »

tboughen wrote: post #5
Razengan wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye. That can be frustrating and humbling as an engineer, at times, but its definitely enlightening. Weren't Bob Iger and Steve Jobs close or at least friends? That kind of echoes Jobs' sentiment about "technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married wi…

Bob Iger and Steve Jobs were very close friends. I heard an interview of Bob Iger on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon where he spoke at length about his friendship with Steve Jobs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b0c9#play

Steve Jobs on storytelling and Disney's monopoly on the business: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-stories-about-people...

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by bsder »

madrox wrote: post #2

I worked at Disney for many years. Fun fact: Disney has no CTO...just EVPs per division. This is, in part, because Iger considers himself the CTO Of Disney. That may seem funny to HN, because you’ll never hear him say anything about Kubernetes or Cloud, but he’s made some pretty big technology bets in his tenure that have delivered on Disney’s goals. Disney+ is actually the product of a 2B acquisition of BAMTech. Dis…

> Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company because to them tech takes a back seat to entertainment in the public eye.

I don't know. Most people who have an inkling about engineering generally regard the theme parks with nothing short of awe.

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by aprdm »

Austin_Conlon wrote: post #11
tboughen wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bob Iger and Steve Jobs were very close friends. I heard an interview of Bob Iger on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon where he spoke at length about his friendship with Steve Jobs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b0c9#play

Steve Jobs on storytelling and Disney's monopoly on the business: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-stories-about-people...

That was when Steve and the CEO before Bob didn't get together... Steve did sell Pixar to Disney after all.

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by echelon »

aidenn0 wrote: post #7
naringas wrote: post #6

also about Iger's Disney https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...

Nice article. One point: > Disney will have to lose money it could otherwise make in order to differentiate its streaming service. > Such a move cuts against much industrial organizational economic theory. Theorists posit that corporations like Disney tend not to intentionally lose money just to acquire market power, because foregoing revenue is not, apparently, rational. This theory is nonsense. After all, if Disney…

> media is not fungible.

It could be. Imagine a world where movies don't cost millions of dollars to make.

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by naringas »

echelon wrote: post #15
aidenn0 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice article. One point: > Disney will have to lose money it could otherwise make in order to differentiate its streaming service. > Such a move cuts against much industrial organizational economic theory. Theorists posit that corporations like Disney tend not to intentionally lose money just to acquire market power, because foregoing revenue is not, apparently, rational. This theory is nonsense. After all, if Disney…

> media is not fungible. It could be. Imagine a world where movies don't cost millions of dollars to make.

how would that make movies indistinguishable from each other?

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by woander »

Why is it that every post about a company ( Disney today, Stripe yesterday, Microsoft, Gitlab, Bloomberg, , etc ), the top comment is always a PR-style praise of the company?

It's always "I used to work at and so and so is great" or "I know someone who worked at and so and so is great".

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by aidenn0 »

echelon wrote: post #15
aidenn0 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice article. One point: > Disney will have to lose money it could otherwise make in order to differentiate its streaming service. > Such a move cuts against much industrial organizational economic theory. Theorists posit that corporations like Disney tend not to intentionally lose money just to acquire market power, because foregoing revenue is not, apparently, rational. This theory is nonsense. After all, if Disney…

> media is not fungible. It could be. Imagine a world where movies don't cost millions of dollars to make.

It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by CharlesW »

naringas wrote: post #16
echelon wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> media is not fungible. It could be. Imagine a world where movies don't cost millions of dollars to make.

how would that make movies indistinguishable from each other?

Also, you don't need millions to make a movie.

https://www.webfilmschool.com/independent-filmmaking-the-7-m...

Re: Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

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Post by grawprog »

madrox wrote: post #2

I worked at Disney for many years. Fun fact: Disney has no CTO...just EVPs per division. This is, in part, because Iger considers himself the CTO Of Disney. That may seem funny to HN, because you’ll never hear him say anything about Kubernetes or Cloud, but he’s made some pretty big technology bets in his tenure that have delivered on Disney’s goals. Disney+ is actually the product of a 2B acquisition of BAMTech. Dis…

>Disney doesn’t tend to get enough credit as a tech company

I think more in the early days of film they were more highly regarded for this. Especially among animators. Disney pioneered a lot animation and filmmaking techniques. Though their acquiring and Hmmm 'lifting of source material and content' has always happened. Take a look at Disney's Aladdin vs the Popeye version, the story elements changed from the original story are eerily similar between the two.

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