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Chris Cocks

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
617 total appearances

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

No, his name's Brian Baker.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

He's very boring, very much like me.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

He likes Monopoly.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

I don't know if he and his family cheat quite as much as my family do, but when they play, because cheating's our favorite part of the game.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

But yeah, he's a big board gamer, former Nike.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

We replicate that across.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

So Peppa Pig would be more of an entertainment-driven platform where...

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

you know, the global play leads kind of live over inside of entertainment and licensing and toy kind of helps help support them.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

Magic, the gathering and D and D are anchored in wizards of the coast and kind of what we do with the hobby channel.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

But like increasingly we're doing more video games, we're doing more entertainment across those.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

So the three verticals kind of operate independent, but then they also, uh,

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

are highly collaborative with each other utilizing the brands.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

Usually it's me.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

So we have to do prioritization.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

Not every brand is kind of built equally.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

So we have a hierarchy for our brands called Grow, Optimize, and Reinvent.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

So our growth brands are the ones where we see the highest three year kind of continuous growth potential.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

We see the highest kind of like operating profit margin potential, and we see them operating in markets that are pretty buoyant.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

They tend to be more blue ocean and less red ocean.

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Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

And so those growth properties tend to get first pick on available capital and available talent.