Bob Chapek was fired as CEO of the Walt Disney Company on November 20, 2022, replaced by his own predecessor and mentor, Bob Iger. Four years later, timed to the release of his new memoir “Behind the Castle Walls: My Thirty Years at the Happiest Place on Earth” (Gallery Books), Chapek sits down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to say, for the first time in detail, what he believes really happened: a New York Times interview he says he was never told about, a company history he says he was erased from, and what he told Bob Iger the day after he lost the job he’d worked thirty years to get.
Timestamps
0:00 Who is Bob Chapek, really
3:00 From a steel town outside Chicago to Disney
7:00 The Kraft Singles campaign that taught him marketing
10:00 The “dark horse” years, and meeting Bob Iger
14:00 Fixing the Disney Stores nobody thought could be fixed
17:00 His wife’s illness, and the job offer on the same day
20:00 Breaking his silence on being pushed out
24:00 “You signed my death warrant”
27:00 Why he still sent Iger a gold coin
29:00 His advice for Disney’s new CEO, Josh D’Amaro
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