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Bob Iger returning to Disney as CEO?
- Thread starter Disney Dead Head
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They don't care. They've been allowing creative talent to leave for years, and even forcing those people out as well. They believe they can just outsource when they need something, often to the same people they let go, but I imagine paying a higher price.
I was just coming in here to say this. He didn’t even doing anything groundbreaking. He just brought other people’s properties and has a great personality. Bob C is being thrown under the bus because he isn’t likable. Not like I care since he’s an elitist but acting like Iger was so great is revisionist history.
From my reading alot have ended up at Universal, and some feel the need to grind an axe at Disney. Epic Universe could really be something with a crew of former Imagineers wanting to prove Disney wrong................
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
We lose either way with a Bob in charge unfortunately.
GimpYancIent
Well-Known Member
Too true.
uncle jimmy
Premium Member
Maybe with help from the new Chairwoman of the Board, she will address that and other things. My vote is for Eisner for the interim CEO.
If they were going to make a change in the CEO, would they want it to be plastered all over the news or maybe done on a Friday or around a Holiday when people may miss the shake up?
Tha Realest
Well-Known Member
I just don’t see this being likely. All of his lieutenants, such as Mucha and Braverman, are also retiring and their successors already hired (likely picked by Bob C). That’s a lot to unwind.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
Does anyone else think Iger planned all this nickel and dime stuff like genie+, exited to make it look like it was someone else who’s killing the parks, all to come back and look like a hero trying to make things better
something doesn’t pass the smell test here and like marni said, it’s sad when Iger is the lesser of two evils
something doesn’t pass the smell test here and like marni said, it’s sad when Iger is the lesser of two evils
stretchsje
Well-Known Member
Yes.
Tha Realest
Well-Known Member
Look he left just as Covid was becoming a global threat. That was no coincidence. He’s loomed large despite his retirement, and appears to have planted a number of stories to cast him in a different light than his successor. I don’t think this is so much a reality as it is his desire to have his ego stoked. The only thing that might make this somewhat possible is that his hopes and desires for a high level Biden administration job or ambassadorship has not planned out, and he‘s getting bored
owlsandcoffee
Well-Known Member
Anybody who's watched the Disney+ content should be able to tell Iger is pulling a Leno.
Cmdr_Crimson
Well-Known Member
Something is brewing with Chapek...He's just being more menacing..
CoasterSnoop
Well-Known Member
There's nothing more on-brand for this man than this being one of the few freely-licensed, and therefore usable on Wikipedia, photos of him. It's literally the best one they can find.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
At this point Goofy would probably run it better
They both probably accumulated their high net worth by smart investing. Iger is worth $800M and Leno lived off of his stand up income and he did not touch his multi million dollar annual income as Tonight show host and invested it.
Indeed.
Though not everyone “retired”. Some have left in protest, some jumped before they were pushed, and some were just pushed.
rk03221
Well-Known Member
The CEO after Iger was supposed to be Tom Staggs but he left the company. Which is such a shame because staggs was really well liked amongst cms. I’m a former wdw cm myself and I remember this being around 2015
I don't think so. Staggs did not have the support of the Disney Board who elects the CEO so Staggs quit.