No More Mr. Nice Guy: Bob Iger May Just Want to Sell Disney and Be Done

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The CEO’s uncharacteristic antagonism toward strikers may point to an M&A state of mind

Bob Iger at the 2023 Allen & Company Sun Valley conference.
Bob Iger at the 2023 Allen & Company Sun Valley conference. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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For decades, Disney CEO Bob Iger has been a revered media titan, beloved by both employees and Wall Street — a rare feat and tricky balancing act.

That’s what made it so surprising to the creative community when the usually friendly and disciplined Iger, fresh off his private jet at Sun Valley, chose a setting known as “summer camp for billionaires” to castigate writers and actors for their “very disturbing” strike and economic expectations that are “just not realistic,” adding that Hollywood has been “a great business for all of these people.”

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