Disney's new CTO tells staff he 'won't pretend it will be easy' to win in the changing media landscape
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When a company like Disney frames tech as the lever to "win" rather than support, it signals that IP alone is no longer the moat—distribution, personalization, and ops are. Media and entertainment operators should assume the bar for in-house engineering and data capability just moved up again.
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