In his first public comments as CEO of The Walt Disney Co., Josh D’Amaro threw a little bit of shade at the competition.
“Simply put, while others in our industry are consolidating just to compete, or struggling to be relevant in a fragmented and disrupted world, Disney is in a category of one poised to accelerate into our next era of innovation and growth,” D’Amaro told Disney shareholders Wednesday. “And this next chapter will be driven by staying focused on world-class creativity, enhanced by technology, bringing unforgettable stories to audiences wherever they are.”
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The comments surely resonated. After all, Paramount is seeking to subsume the much larger Warner Bros., while NBCUniversal is still figuring out its path forward in streaming and TV. Netflix is a streaming giant, of course, but it lacks the franchises and intellectual property that define Disney.
And so D’Amaro
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