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Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio)

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Ferrari is the pinnacle of luxury scarcity — across its entire 79-year history, the company has sold just 330,000 cars at an average price today of $500,000. For context, Hermes sells that many Birkins and Kellys roughly every 2 years, and Rolex moves that many watches every 3 months. And yet this ultimate luxury product also lives under the same roof with a widely-beloved professional sports team… one with 400 million rabid fans from all walks of life who live and die by the Scuderia’s performance every F1 race weekend! How is it possible that these two seemingly contradictory customer bases

ESPN Funded the Disney You Love

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How Big Was Frozen?

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Why Steve Jobs Bought Pixar

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How Pixar Actually Makes a Movie

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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire (Audio)

In 1984, the Walt Disney Company was worth more dead than alive. Disney Animation — the heart of Walt's famous flywheel — had stagnated for years, bleeding away talent while corporate raiders circled,

Walt Disney's Unfinished Sci-Fi City: The REAL EPCOT

EPCOT wasn't supposed to be just another theme park. Walt Disney's original, wild vision was for a 50-acre, climate-controlled sci-fi city where people actually lived. He spent his entire life escalat