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Iger’s New Act, Apollo Drama & JPow Tea Leaves

Observations on the great Wall Street stories of our age, or at least of this week: Josh Kushner’s new venture partner, Josh Harris’s $5 billion kiss-off to Leon Black, and the Elon-Cathie deflation delusion.

Bob Iger
Ex-Disney C.E.O. Bob Iger recently joined Thrive Capital as a venture partner. Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media
William D. Cohan
September 18, 2022

Bob Iger has had a strange and varied post-executive afterlife in the two years since announcing to Ben Smith that he was semi-un-retiring from Disney, after handing reins to his successor, Bob Chapek, in order to help steer the company through the Covid pandemic. Since then, of course, Iger has finally relaxed his grip on Disney, officially stepped away, and moved onto other projects, such as joining the board of Perfect Day, a dairy replacement company, and Genies, a digital avatar startup.