until after i had the notion. moneyball was sort of like all at once, that i was asking. i was just curious. how is this baseball team winning games who doesn t have any money? and when i met billy beane and he started to explain it to me, it was both him and the idea happening at once. sometimes it s like, going for a new one, itjust starts with like. the character. ..the character and a situation. like, totally socially maladjusted human being, who, in most of human history, the world would ve found no particular use for, goes from being worth nothing to being worth $22.5 billion in 18 months and then starts to change the world in all kinds of weird ways. michael, let s talk about your book, the new one, the one you were just saying to me has caused all of this noise. so, you spent a lot of time with sam bankman fried before you started even writing the book.
mm hm. and i was wondering whether the. you write about this guy who s brilliant, creates this crypto exchange. it s quite a dense subject. he is very nerdy, and you spend a lot of time interviewing him, and then it all sort of spectacularly gets derailed. and i was wondering, did your narrative process, to the extent that while you were interviewing him, you had a plan for what you were going to write, did that get derailed, too, by what happened to sam? we got railed more than derailed. really, because i had. iwent in. i go, usually, into these things kind of groping. i found some character who i find interesting and he s in some weird situation. and so you had this person who. child of academics, clearly kind of socially troubled like, he has trouble with other people. ..has become one of these instant billionaires, and notjust a billionaire, like, forbes had him at $22.5 billion and it took him 18 months to get it. then he was going to give it all away to save humanity. so, there
to me, it was both him and the idea happening at once. sometimes it s like, going for a new one, itjust starts with like. the character. ..the character and a situation. like, totally socially maladjusted human being, who, in most of human history, the world would ve found no particular use for, goes from being worth nothing to being worth $22.5 billion in 18 months and then starts to change the world in all kinds of weird ways. michael, let s talk about your book, the new one, the one you were just saying to me has caused all of this noise. so, you spent a lot of time with sam bankman fried before you started even writing the book. mm hm. and i was wondering whether the. you write about this guy who s brilliant, creates this crypto exchange. it s quite a dense subject. he is very nerdy, and you spend
a lot of time interviewing him, and then it all sort of spectacularly gets derailed. and i was wondering, did your narrative process, to the extent that while you were interviewing him, you had a plan for what you were going to write, did that get derailed, too, by what happened to sam? we got railed more than derailed. really, because i had. iwent in. i go, usually, into these things kind of groping. i found some character who i find interesting and he s in some weird situation. and so you had this person who. child of academics, clearly kind of socially troubled like, he has trouble with other people. ..has become one of these instant billionaires, and notjust a billionaire, like, forbes had him at $22.5 billion and it took him 18 months to get it. then he was going to give it all away to save humanity. so, there s this odd backdrop. that led me in, and it wasjust like, what is the story here? and i spent. well, i met him in the fall,
well, you use the right word, sandra, mixed bag. earnings actually beat expectations coming in at $1.03 a share. $0.08 better-than-expected. on the revenue side, a mess at $22.33 billion expecting 22.5 billion. a slight mist. let s dig down deep or if we can. if we look at them media entertainment segment of disney, this is linear tv. the actual revenue came in at right at $14 billion. we are expecting 14.4. new mention of the parks. this actually in at the description of parks, experiences, and products if you like where that came in at 8.33 billion. better than estimates. it wasn t really what was happening here in the united states. it was the parks overseas that did a lot better including a singapore where the theme park was open and in shanghai.