Sean Callagy

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4,277 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 10 Sep

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Unblinded with Sean Callagy · How Iron Man Saved Marvel: David Maisel Shares the Real Story with Sean Callagy · 21 May 2026 podcast

And he said, well, actually, I stole it.

I was like, jeez, you don't have to say that.

But, I mean, just to let this land for a second, company quite out of bankruptcy for $30 million, got to $100 million market cap, and then sold for $10 billion.

Like, that is innovative, optimized value multiplication, right?

And in the beginning, how crazy did everybody think you were?

We hear the stories of Walt Disney and Disney's Folly and making Snow White and Disney's Crazy to build Disneyland, but people called you crazy as well.

Yeah, and it's hard to fathom that now because it seems obvious, right, with Marvel looking back.

But the only reason I got the chance to do this

in retrospect, is that it wasn't because of my resume at the time.

I had never made a movie before.

I was smart, had a good... And imagine selling this.

Yeah, I'm a Harvard MBA, which is you, David, correct?

I've never made a movie before, but now I think you should create Marvel Studios, and I've never created a studio either.

So I've never made a movie.

I've never created a studio.

Right.

Never raised money.

And Ike, you're this extremely masterful, difficult person who doesn't like to spend money, but let's go build a studio.

Exactly.

And so he actually, my meeting with Ike, funny enough, was at Mar-a-Lago in 2003.

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