Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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with @robertiger @cdixon @smc90 A wide-ranging conversation with Bob Iger on the interplay between technology, content, and distribution; as well as Bob’s journey -- and that of various creators! -- especially as the industry evolved from TV and cable to the advent of the internet/ web 1.0 to 2.0 to briefly touching on web3 and other emerging technologies. As well as topics top of mind for all company and community builders: from build vs. buy and the innovator's dilemma, to managing creativity, decentralization, remote work, and much more.

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0:00.0	Happy New Year everyone and welcome back to the A16Z podcast. This is your host,
0:06.0	Staff Smith and today I am delighted to share what I think is an incredibly relevant
0:10.0	episode for this audience from our crypto and Web3 podcast Web3 with A16C.
0:15.3	In this episode Sonal Choxi and A16Z crypto founding general partner Chris Dixon
0:20.1	sit down with Bob Iger. Yes, the Bob Iger, longtime CEO of Disney.
0:24.7	Bob draws on his learnings from working with top and emerging creators,
0:28.1	including how to effectively deliver feedback, what it really took to close deals
0:32.2	like Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm, and even what it took for Disney to disrupt themselves.
0:37.0	Having just listened to this episode myself, I can tell you you're in for a real treat.
0:41.5	And if you like this episode, be sure to subscribe to the show if you haven't already.
0:45.8	Just search Web 3 with A16 and Z, a show about building the next generation of the Internet from the team at A6 and C crypto,
1:03.8	hosted by editor-in-chief Sonal Choxi, that's me, and also with occasional co-host,
1:08.4	founding general partner Chris Dixon. In this special holiday episode, Chris and I interview Bob Eichur as we've been spending a lot of time thinking about what's next in media as enabled by new technologies.
1:20.0	So it was an honor for us to sit down and chat with Bob in an intimate conversation,
1:24.2	recorded in LA a few months ago.
1:26.6	Bob probably needs no introduction, but after this chat took place,
1:30.0	it was recently announced that he was returning to Disney.
1:33.1	Still, just to highlight more about his background
1:35.4	as relevant to this conversation,
1:37.6	as a longtime CEO of Disney, Bob was responsible for,
1:40.5	among many other things,
1:41.7	leading the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucas Film, and more.
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