American entertainment executive who ran Disney Studios in the 1980s renaissance (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King), co-founded DreamWorks with Spielberg and Geffen, and later founded Quibi — the failed short-form video platform.
Orchestrated the Disney animation renaissance of the early 1990s — building the creative and commercial machine that produced the greatest run of animated films in history — and his subsequent co-founding of DreamWorks and later Quibi represents the full arc of Hollywood entrepreneurial ambition.
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