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· Sarah Lesnar
Former Disney CEO: ‘Unbelievably Beautiful Women Are Not Funny’
According to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, women who are both beautiful and funny are practically impossible to find: “From my position, the hardest artist to find is a beautiful, funny woman.”
· Editorial Staff
Disney Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Empire off of This Single Business Model Sketch
(click to enlarge) The rough sketch above, drawn in 1957 and left behind by Walt Disney in the Disney Archives, helped build the Mouse House into the multi-billion dollar entertainment corporation it is today.
· Waylae Gregoire
Here’s the Dramatic Moment Steve Jobs Told Disney’s CEO His Cancer Had Returned
It was a cool Tuesday on January 24, 2006 in Emeryville, California. Steve Jobs and Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, sat on an outside bench on Pixar’s campus to talk. Within half an hour, Iger would publically announce Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, which Jobs owned a majority share of,…
· Editorial Staff
Disney Creates Badass Robot That Makes Epic Drawings in the Sand … Because They Can
When you’re a huge, multi-billion dollar conglomerate like the Walt Disney Company, you can afford to create an army of robots to do your bidding — even if your bidding involves painting Simba into the sand. Going beyond the ranks of the Disney theme parks’ animatronic Pirates…
· Riley Schatzle
Banksy Unveils His Nightmarish Theme-Park Project Dismaland
Yesterday, street artist Banksy unveiled his newest project: Dismaland, a 2.5-acre theme park that he described as an “art show for the 99 percent who would rather not be at an art show.” Dismaland includes the works of Banksy along with 50 other artists, including Damien Hirst,…
· Max Chang
These are the Highest Rated CEOs of 2015
Glassdoor just released their annual list of the Highest Rated CEOs of 2015. CEOs of large companies (1000 employees or more) are rated by their employees on Glassdoor. Ratings for the top CEOs of small businesses (1000 employees or less) can be found here. Rounding out the top…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
These are the Top 30 Most Popular Jobs For Millennials
Generation Y is the largest generation in the American workforce, with 53.5 million millennials holding down some kind of job. In comparison, there are 52.7 million Gen Xers and 44.6 million baby boomers who are employed. So where do millennials most want to work? A new survey…
· Laura Dang
Australian Parents Throw 3-Year-Old Daughter Epic $39,000 Birthday Bash
Three-year-old Lauren Lembo celebrated her birthday bash last weekend in Perth, Australia with an extravagant $39,000 party that would put the teens on MTV’s “My Super Sweet Sixteen” to shame. The Disney-themed soiree featured entertainment by a former “Australian Idol”…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Everyone is Buying This Bruce Lee DJing T-Shirt After Watching the ‘Avengers’ Sequel
Disney and Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Age of Ultron” smashed the box office this weekend, pulling in $191.3 million in the U.S. and giving it the second-best domestic opening weekend ever. It’s no surprise, then, that a T-shirt with an image of Bruce Lee that Robert Downey Jr.…
· Max Chang
Why These CEOs Only Take Home $1 a Year
Tesla revealed today that CEO Elon Musk took home $0 in salary last year. He was actually offered their minimum salary of $35,360, but he never cashed the check.
· Waylae Gregoire
This Is How Hard It Was to Earn Steve Jobs’ Trust
How hard was it to earn the trust of someone like Steve Jobs? It really boiled down to one thing: Do you actually know what you are talking about?
· Waylae Gregoire
This Teen Made Tens of Thousands of Dollars Off His First App Just By Googling It
We swear, with how fast the tech world moves, it seems entrepreneurs are getting younger… every month. When Michael Sayman was 12-years-old, he taught himself to code through tutorials he found on Google. At age 13, he created his first app, priced at one dollar, which made him…
· Editorial Staff
You’ll Never Think of Doritos the Same Again After Learning How They Were Invented
Have you ever heard the story of “where” Doritos were invented? It’s not a story you’ll forget and it’ll leave you thinking “Only in America.” Let’s go back to 1955 when Disneyland first opened. The founder of Frito-Lay got permission from Walt Disney to open up a Mexican, as…
· Benny Luo
Director Jon M. Chu: Lessons on Success From Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber is arguably the hottest celebrity right now. His fans can’t get enough of him and he is constantly a target for the press. If you follow the news, you’ve probably been seeing coverage of all his antics and escapades this year. However, like most celebrities, the…
· Benny Luo
Meet the Entrepreneur Behind New York’s First Japanese ‘Maid Cafe’
A couple months ago, the first Japanese Maid Cafe opened in New York’s Chinatown. These cafes are known in Japan to have girls dressed in maid outfits and greet all customers that enter with “Okaerinasaimase, goshujinsama!”, meaning “welcome home, master!” in a baby-like voice.
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Miniso
Miniso turned character-IP collabs and blind-box impulse buys into a global store network — Sanrio, Disney, and Chiikawa merch you didn't plan to buy, plus its own TOP TOY chain.