Sean Callagy
speaker
4,277 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Sean Callagy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Pepper wasn't, Gwyneth Paltrow, right?
And I know you're an incredibly humble man, and I think you're at times a falsely modest man, meaning you diminish your accomplishments, but it just dawned on me.
Yeah, that was really interesting, but it was so interesting that it was in bankruptcy, the Marvel property.
And Sean knows there's an article right outside my office from the New York Times in 2007, a year before Iron Man came out, talking about all the reasons Marvel Studios would fail.
And so I leave that right by my office to remind me of that era.
In fact, I announced Marvel Studios on CNBC in 2004, and our stock went down for four years.
How long?
Four years.
How long?
Four years.
How long?
Four years.
Yes.
And it was worse for me because, as I mentioned, all my upside was stock options that were now under market for four years.
And, but you know, Ike and I talked about this and once I started showing what I could do and he got confidence, he ended up buying back a third of the company at that cheap price, which was very valuable when we sold it to Disney.
So it was taking lemonade and making lemons from it.
You know, having faith in situation instead of getting depressed if your stock goes down,
If you really believe in the fundamentals of an investment, that's the time, like Warren Buffett would say, where you buy it on sale, you know, from where it was.
And so we bought back Marvel stock on sale.
But to your question, it's a really good one, Sean, and I think
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