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Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Is Bob Chapek Bringing McKinsey to Disney?
There's a sense that he's just an operations person, right? He was handed sort of a finished vision of Disney and he said, okay, here's the vision. It's Disney Plus. I'm going to relentlessly optimize the company for this product without realizing that relentlessly optimizing a company like Disney for profit or efficiency kills the magic of the company itself. When you look at Bob Chapick, he's a great operations guy. If you have someone like an Iger, and we think this is the greater conversation about Disney, right? As we kind of step into it, Bob Iger is in a position where he has two years. Two years to find his next successor. The
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