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Francis deSouza

All indications are that Bob Iger has decided to own the third of Hulu he doesn’t own and he has already started talking about combining Hulu with Disney+.
William D. Cohan • May 28, 2023

The Iger-Roberts Chess Match & Icahn’s Duel

News and notes from the Maidstone crowd and Burning Tree delegation.
William D. Cohan • September 15, 2021
The $7 Billion Wall Street Gamble
CEO of Illumina Francis deSouza at Sun Valley in 2021
Francis DeSouza, the C.E.O. of a $70 billion biotech company, was hoping to make a mega-billion acquisition to help promote early cancer detection. Then the regulators came in to halt the deal. And he went ahead anyway.