Is Dude Perfect the next Disney?
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What started as five friends filming trick shot videos 16 years ago has become a new media empire. Dude Perfect has more than 61 million followers on YouTube alone. CEO Andrew Yaffe talks with host Jeff Berman about how he and the dudes are leveraging the Disney playbook to build a vertically integrated business that spans, content, products, events and maybe someday … their own theme park.
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| 1:18.6 | What are the types of deals that you would and wouldn't do? Is this something that would be |
| 1:23.7 | over the line for you? As with most of summer in Frisco, Texas, it was a sweltering August day. |
| 1:31.2 | Andrew Yaffey was peppering the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel Dude Perfect |
| 1:35.3 | with as many tough questions as he could think of. |
| 1:39.4 | If I'm here to grow the business, we might have to do things that a year ago we might not have wanted to do. |
| 1:45.3 | Like, how would we think through this? Five years from now, what do you guys want to be doing? |
| 1:49.8 | This was the final stage of his job interviews, and Andrew had to ask himself, would he really |
| 1:55.7 | leave his role as a top executive at the NBA to become the first CEO of Dude Perfect. The |
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