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As the man himself once said, “in business, the secret is to seize opportunities.”
LVMH: The Civil Savage | the Generalist
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Ben: [00:13:20] It is capital intensive because you have to maintain the parks. There's a lot of equipment, a lot of rides. It takes a lot of people to operate the parks. Disney invested $3.4 billion in CapEx in the park segment in 2022 or about 12% of sales. So that's not an investment that other companies are easily able to make. I mean there's only really two global theme park companies I'm aware of.
The Walt Disney Company: An Entertainment Empire
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In 1937 Claude Shannon showed how to design circuits for binary arithmetic. In the same year George Stibitz built a machine that actually did it – the machine was called Model K, as it was built on his kitchen table.
The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories & Things
Robert Solomon
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