The Launch of Disney+, the War on Billionaires, and the 4-Day Work Week
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss several topics from a busy news week, including the launch of Disney+ (what does it mean for Netflix?), the growing public animosity towards billionaires, and proposals to move to a 4-day work week.
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone, you're listening to after hours I'm young me and I'm here |
| 0:47.4 | with Felix and me here so me here how is graduation you know graduation is one of those great times so it sounds like what are we doing in graduation in November |
| 0:55.4 | But some of our programs actually end at different times and so I went to the GMP graduation on Thursday night |
| 1:00.4 | General Management program right? Yeah, and it was just delightful. |
| 1:04.1 | You know, it's fantastic to see people and to meet their loved ones and they're so grateful |
| 1:09.2 | and happy. |
| 1:10.2 | One of the things I love about these more extended exec ed programs we do is you really get to know the participants and then when graduation comes along it's amazing to meet their families. |
| 1:23.0 | But we have a lot to talk about this week. |
| 1:26.0 | It's been a busy news week. |
| 1:28.0 | And so we've got a lot of news stories to catch up on. |
| 1:30.0 | Felix, I know that you brought a story that you're excited to talk about? |
| 1:33.4 | Yes, I brought in a story about the possibility of working far fewer hours than we do today. |
| 1:39.8 | Sounds super appealing, doesn't it? And then I thought we could also do quick hits on |
| 1:46.8 | other stories that made the news this week including the launch of Disney Plus and the war on billionaires. |
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