I am wary when a CEO makes himself part of the show and Steve Jobs was very much

rightly or wrongly very much part of the show Tim Cook likes to stay in the

background and another example I'm gonna give you here is what I call the

dueling Bob's Disney Bob Eiger Bob Chapeck Bob Eiger absolutely makes himself

part of the show

I'm Chris Hill and that's Motley Fool Senior Analyst Jim Gillies we're putting

an investor's lens on the TV show Succession your award-winning HBO series

about Wastar Royco a fictional media conglomerate and the drama that surrounds

the family running the business Ricky Mulvey caught up with Gillies to talk

about the real-life companies that parallel Wastar Royco and the challenges of

investing in larger-than-life CEOs and before you start listening let me warn

you right now this episode does include spoilers for Succession so if you

watch the show and you haven't caught up through episode five of season four

consider yourself warned with my spoiler alert out of the way let's get started

so while I'm giving people time to to tune out if they haven't seen season

four episode five I'm gonna I want to vamp a little bit outside of the show I

think sees a CEO Succession for a lot of a lot of businesses is often followed but

I don't know if it's actually important to track it's really difficult to judge

and also asking people who are CEOs what's gonna happen after you pass on is a

bit like asking someone the details of their will yeah the the the ability to

really step in it rather quickly is it's very much there and I don't

having asked a few people what's in their wills I think Succession I think it's

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