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Colglazier flies the coop
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Mac Tonight
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I'm curious to know if he's just the first of many that will eventually jump ship. Interesting times...
lazyboy97o
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TP2000
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Best news I've had all week! 
I think he's already told everyone on this planet that he is a Stanford and Harvard grad and then dominates the conversation to prove that he is very, very knowledgeable about a wide range of topics. So now he can focus on the other planets in the solar system and start spreading the word there instead. Say a prayer for the Martians.
If this career change also means he and DeAnna will move from their entry-level home in Newport Coast, dinner party hostesses from Lido Isle to Dana Point will be breathing a sigh of relief. Trust me.
And astronaut boots add at least two inches to a guy's height, so this is a win-win for Mr. Colglazier. Congrats!
I think he's already told everyone on this planet that he is a Stanford and Harvard grad and then dominates the conversation to prove that he is very, very knowledgeable about a wide range of topics. So now he can focus on the other planets in the solar system and start spreading the word there instead. Say a prayer for the Martians.
If this career change also means he and DeAnna will move from their entry-level home in Newport Coast, dinner party hostesses from Lido Isle to Dana Point will be breathing a sigh of relief. Trust me.
And astronaut boots add at least two inches to a guy's height, so this is a win-win for Mr. Colglazier. Congrats!
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Mac Tonight
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He and Beardy Branson can bring knowledge to the whole galaxy!
George Lucas on a Bench
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While I know the average career expectancy of a WDC higher-up is dismal, to say the least, it seems pretty troubling if one of their Presidents is abandoning ship in favor of the...Space Travel Industry.
shambolicdefending
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Always a trickle down effect when a CEO leaves, and a lot of his/her posse jetison soon thereafter.
Virgin Galactic, though? Not sure I'd want to be jumping into something like that right now...
Virgin Galactic, though? Not sure I'd want to be jumping into something like that right now...
TP2000
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That's exactly what I thought.
Juan Trippe, CEO of Pan American, made a big splashy deal in the late 1960's about his airline's plan to fly tourists to the moon. He even sold tickets. It didn't work out that great for him or Pan Am, and Pan Am was gone a few years later.
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TP2000
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The entire Virgin empire is on very shaky ground. The airline industry has collapsed. Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic both still exist, barely. Although both the governments of Australia and the UK have said that their first priority is in bailing out and saving only one airline; their national flag carriers of Qantas and British Airways. The scrappy Virgin competitors are not going to be saved instead of the flag carriers.
Then there's his Virgin trains thing. I have no idea how that's going for him in the UK (although travel has collapsed there), but his Virgin trains company in Florida was already struggling with low ridership before Covid. Now it's non-existent.
Here's the grim economic outlook on Virgin Trains Florida from last December, about 60 days before the world collapsed.
His Virgin train proposal between Victorville and Vegas was a stupid idea before Covid (if you have to drive 2 hours all the way to Victorville to catch the train, you might as well just keep driving the last 3 hours to Vegas). But now with Covid, it's going nowhere even faster than before.
Virgin Galactic? When the first half dozen millionaire passengers burn up into charcoal upon re-entry, or never even make it off the launch pad to begin with, that's not going to be a PR problem that can be handled with a few cute Tweets from your Social Media team.
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TP2000
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I think it was the latter.
He is always happy to tell you how smart he is, but he isn't stupid.
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October82
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As anyone in the industry will attest, having an MBA run a company whose primary product is aerospace technology is a bad idea. What Virgin Galactic is attempting to do is not the same as an airline or tourism company that simply purchases hardware from firms that do the R&D.
TP2000
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But... but... that MBA was from Harvard Business School! He can tell you all about it, if you'll just be quiet and listen.
TP2000
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Let's also be honest about Disney's recent decisions on Colglazier.
Colglazier not only got passed up for the Parks Chairman gig, but he was leap-frogged by the younger and more popular Josh D'Amaro who was further down the totem pole than Colglazier was. Ouch.
The writing was on the wall, and Colglazier needed to find a new career.
It's an easy two-churro bet that Disney does not replace Colglazier in his role as President of "Asia Parks", and just lets the Presidents of Hong Kong and Shanghai report directly to Josh without Colglazier's old bureaucratic level in the way.
Fly me to the moon, Michael!
Colglazier not only got passed up for the Parks Chairman gig, but he was leap-frogged by the younger and more popular Josh D'Amaro who was further down the totem pole than Colglazier was. Ouch.
The writing was on the wall, and Colglazier needed to find a new career.
It's an easy two-churro bet that Disney does not replace Colglazier in his role as President of "Asia Parks", and just lets the Presidents of Hong Kong and Shanghai report directly to Josh without Colglazier's old bureaucratic level in the way.
Fly me to the moon, Michael!
Why not? I can't think of a more socially distant place to go than outer space.
Robbiem
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Virgin trains in the UK doesn’t exist anymore. They lost one franchise and handed one back when it went insolvent. This was all precovid. Now the UK rail industry is effectively run by the government and almost no one is using trains.The entire Virgin empire is on very shaky ground. The airline industry has collapsed. Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic both still exist, barely. Although both the governments of Australia and the UK have said that their first priority is in bailing out and saving only one airline; their national flag carriers of Qantas and British Airways. The scrappy Virgin competitors are not going to be saved instead of the flag carriers.
Then there's his Virgin trains thing. I have no idea how that's going for him in the UK (although travel has collapsed there), but his Virgin trains company in Florida was already struggling with low ridership before Covid. Now it's non-existent.
Here's the grim economic outlook on Virgin Trains Florida from last December, about 60 days before the world collapsed.
His Virgin train proposal between Victorville and Vegas was a stupid idea before Covid (if you have to drive 2 hours all the way to Victorville to catch the train, you might as well just keep driving the last 3 hours to Vegas). But now with Covid, it's going nowhere even faster than before.
Virgin Galactic? When the first half dozen millionaire passengers burn up into charcoal upon re-entry, or never even make it off the launch pad to begin with, that's not going to be a PR problem that can be handled with a few cute Tweets from your Social Media team.
Virgin Atlantic are supposed to be resuming flights soon to limited destinations but have announced large job losses and are pulling out of a lot of airports, including Gatwick where the Orlando flights used to fly from (they are moving to Heathrow). Interestingly I never realised before Virgin used to offer service from the UK to all the Disney resorts except Paris. British Airways is bigger but didn’t fly to Shanghai although they did go to Paris