5 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm going to show you how great I am. |
0:05.0 | This is our society fellow. |
0:07.0 | I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to How to Take Over the World. |
0:24.6 | This is Ben Wilson. |
0:26.2 | I've got an exciting episode for you today. |
0:27.7 | We're talking about Walt Disney. |
0:29.9 | And why Walt? |
0:30.8 | Well, there are a number of different angles that you can look at Walt from. |
0:33.8 | You can look at his success as an entrepreneur as a guy who just founded one of the, I think, |
0:38.8 | 50 largest companies in the world worth billions and billions of dollars. You can look at him as a |
0:44.2 | storyteller as probably the greatest storyteller of the 20th century. A lot of the stories that we live with |
0:50.8 | now that are a part of mass culture come from the Disney company and come from things that he started and patterns that he set out. |
0:57.9 | So you can look at him as a storyteller. |
1:00.5 | You can look at him as a rags to riches story. |
1:03.3 | You know, he came from literally nowhere. |
1:05.4 | Grew up in Missouri. |
1:07.2 | In the United States, did not come from a wealthy family. |
1:10.1 | You know, someone who just took nothing |
1:12.6 | and was able to establish one of the most iconic companies of all time. |
1:16.6 | You can look at Walt as an innovator. |
1:18.6 | You can look at him as an artist. |
1:21.6 | He really is at the nexus of technology, art, business. |
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