I was and while I don't disagree, in a lot of ways Eisner was not that much different than Iger. How similar they are is kind of fascinating.
He was just as paranoid and drove off anyone he saw as a threat. He tried to weasel out of contracts he agreed to and screw over people who bailed him out more than once (think Katzenberg). He started the price jacking at the parks and raised them by a higher percentage in his tenure than Bob has. He treated business partners badly including driving Pixar away. He had some horrible box office runs and honestly, if not for the very animation department he wanted to get rid of the whole company may have gone under or been taken over long before he went off the deep end. He stayed to long, installed his own puppet BoD, convinced himself he was the only one who could save Disney and let his ego get out of control.
Don't get me wrong, as a card carrying member of Gen X, I grew up on Eisner Disney and it will always be the definitive version I want, idealize and wish we could get back but if I put aside the rose colored glasses for a minute and really look at it, these two guys are alike in so many ways it is a bit eerie.
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