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#676: David Maisel of Marvel Studios Fame — Never-Before-Heard Tales of Hollywood Dealmaking, The Art of Aiming Big, Lessons from Power Broker Michael Ovitz, Combining Business Smarts with Street Smarts, The Making (and Importance) of Iron Man, Selling to Disney for $4 Billion, and Much More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Turning Point Dinner With Bob and Ike

Marvel Studios was a startup within the parent company of Marvel but it was one that had to raise its own money. I told Bob about Kevin how I thought he could run the Marvel entity within Disney in a uniquely great way and then Bob got to meet Kevin and see for himself. The deal went through pretty well and the price of it we got four billion dollars which was about 3.8 billion more than the price when I joined.

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