Disney Invites Applications for 2022 Disney Accelerator Program
thewaltdisneycompany.comAs someone with some knowledge of the accelerator, I'd describe it as a preferred partner program. I'd only recommend it to series B or beyond. The kinds of mentorship you'll get won't be very relevant to a startup. You won't learn about building companies and you won't gain much of a professional network to raise or sell to, but you'll get meetings with any part of Disney you want to pitch to for a partnership. For the right company that can be huge, like Sphero building BB-8. I'm unfamiliar with their terms.
Turn on dead comments if you want a good chuckle.
I wasn't aware Epic games was a part of Disney's accelerator program. How does it compare to YCom?
They're very different. YC is for companies in the idea or pre-PMF stage and want help building a business. This is more for established companies that are looking for creative partnership opportunities. Epic was hardly a young company when they did it, and the outcome was mostly to sell UE to Disney in exchange for equity.
One company this worked out really well for was Sphero. Their robot toy had been on the market a couple years, and they joined the accelerator right before the new Star Wars movie came out with the BB-8, which was a match made in heaven. So if your product could benefit from licensing deals, then the Disney accelerator could be helpful for making those connections.
What are these people going to accelerate ? How to talk gender identity to 5 year old children? Or how pedophilia is acceptable? Comic at best
I still cannot help but think they have a deep mistrust of software given their digital efforts other than Pixar. Letting EA do it versus continuing Lucas Arts doesn't seem to be isolated.
Disney has struggled to make software part of its DNA, but they've made great strides. As legacy companies go, they've done it better and faster than most.
Gaming is a whole other thing. After Disney Infinity, they embarked on a policy of licensing IP instead of publishing or developing games. Games are a hits-driven business, and Disney Interactive wasn't profitable. Licensing and partnership is more consistent revenue.
Man, the dead comments here are wild.
Are there people who believe Disney is somehow pro-LGBT? They're a corporation: they're anti-LGBT and pro-money; the only time they seem to be pro-LGBT is when they think there is a monetary advantage to seem that way.
The only reason Disney is against the Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill is because this might cost them a fraction of a percent of their revenue. Note: they cut anything that can be misconstrued as gay-friendly content entirely for anti-LGBT foreign markets, such as China.
Disney does not care about you, or anyone else. They care about money. They are an entertainment company, and the largest one in the world, and they want to turn your money into their money as efficiently and quickly as possible; no matter if you are LGBT or not, your money is still green.
They are not, however, pedophiles, nor do they support some sort of pedophile agenda. Anyone who claims to believe that doth protest too much.
> Are there people who believe Disney is somehow pro-LGBT? They're a corporation: they're anti-LGBT and pro-money; the only time they seem to be pro-LGBT is when they think there is a monetary advantage to seem that way.
Worth watching the attached video: https://nypost.com/2022/03/30/disney-producer-cops-to-adding...
Sure it's a corporation, but it's also made out of people.
That article is making Raveneau out to be some exec, but really she's not an executive producer like they claim, and is basically just a director of four episodes of a direct to streaming series that hasn't even finished it's first season yet.
A series that Disney also goes out of it's way not to play in markets that aren't already LGBT friendly.
But first you have to give your pronouns and prove you aren't white!