Disney’s ambitious streaming goals with Lon Harris + Dressd Founder Capri Wheaton | E1481

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Today, Lon Harris joins for This Week in Streaming and we talk about Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 4 (1:49), then we cover some Disney news as they fire their head of General Entertainment Content, Peter Rice (43:05), and enter a bidding war to keep their rights to Indian Cricket (48:30). We wrap with a segment of OK Boomer: this week Producer Rachel sits down with Capri Wheaton, founder, and CEO of Dressd, a peer-to-peer clothing rental service (1:06:37).

(0:00) Jason and Molly tee up today’s show!
(1:49) This Week in Streaming with Lon Harris: “Obi-Wan Kenobi” ep. 4 (SPOILERS)
(13:06) Intercom - Get advanced Intercom features and Early Stage Academy at a 95% discount https://www.intercom.com/early-stage
(14:22) Predicting where “Obi-Wan Kenobi” is headed
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(21:51) More predictions for “Obi-Wan Kenobi”
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(35:48) What’s working with “Obi-Wan Kenobi”, what isn’t working?
(43:05) Disney has fired Peter Rice, who was Chairman of Disney’s General Entertainment Content (basically the head of Disney’s TV division)
(48:30) Disney is about to enter a bidding war to keep its rights to Indian cricket, which is HUGE for its Disney Plus subscriber count
(1:01:50) Toss to OK Boomer with Producer Rachel and Capri Wheaton
(1:06:37) OKB: Capri Wheaton, founder + CEO of Dressd (peer-to-peer clothing rental)

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Happy Friday, Brian.
0:03.8	Yeah, it's Friday. Yeah, we made it to the end of the week.
0:06.8	Crazy news continues in the eye of the storm. My Lord, but we've got an awesome show for you today.
0:12.5	We'll go a little off-duty and we'll talk about Obi-Wan part four.
0:17.1	Really great, great series that I'm enjoying immensely with my three daughters.
0:22.7	And we have more news coming out of Disney, coincidentally.
0:25.5	We do. We're going to go super deep. Again, we want to reiterate, this is a Friday show.
0:29.7	We are ignoring the rest of the world and we are going to talk about Disney plus streaming numbers
0:35.6	and how Indian Cricket might be the key to global streaming domination. And this is the
0:40.5	break you need. Trust me. Yes. And then, finally, we have another great edition of Okay Boomer
0:46.4	from Producer Rachel. It's going to be a great show. Let's take with us.
0:50.2	This week in startups is brought to you by Intercom. If you're an early stage high-growth startup,
0:56.4	you can get access to Intercom's early stage academy today at a 95% discount.
1:02.7	Join the program today at intercom.com slash early-stage or email them at startups at intercom.io.
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1:48.2	offer code twist. All right, everybody. It is Friday. Usually we do this week in streaming on
1:52.7	Thursdays, but we got so busy this week. But we're just super happy to have our pal Juan Harris with
1:58.6	us. He's a writer at screen junkies and he does the inside streaming newsletter and also community
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