Quote du Jour

By Paul Kedrosky · April 26, 2006 · ·

From Disney’s Bob Iger at Milken today:

Technology is to media companies what refrigeration was to Coca-Cola.

As usual, I have no idea (mostly) what it means, but I like it.

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Comments

  1. Seth Finkelstein says:
    April 26, 2006 at 11:32 pm

    Two words: “warm Coke” (as in “Yuck, the soda is not cold”)

  2. Michael Robinson says:
    April 27, 2006 at 2:38 am

    Kind of ironic, don’t you think, given the Pixar/Disney rivalry?
    Technology is to Pixar what cola nuts were to Coca-Cola.

  3. Guillaume says:
    April 27, 2006 at 8:51 am

    My guess: in the same way that getting fridges at point of sales was essential to Coke’s market conquest and domination, Disney can’t be content with producing/distributing movies; hence the strategy going forward will be to get the right “pipes” to reach the market and “held it hostage”.