nafyi.Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
Original excerpt
They go out and they identify, recruit, sell, and hire arguably the greatest two-person management team in media company history: Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.
Context
Yep. So in the wake of all that, in 1984, Roy E. Disney decides enough is enough. Together with the Bass brothers, the new 25% shareholders, Roy and his business partner Stanley Gold, who's also on the Disney board with him, they gang up and they finally force out Ron Miller as CEO, who again is Roy's cousin by marriage, married to Walt's daughter. And they do this via dramatic boardroom coup that happens on September 7th, 1984. And then over a period of just 14 days, because Disney now, like, is without a leader, is in double crisis here. And then Michael quickly brings in his number two from Paramount, Jeffrey Katzenberg, to run the film studios.
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