Behind the Castle Walls

My Thirty Years at the Happiest Place on Earth
For the first time ever, Bob Chapek breaks his silence on his tenure as the Walt Disney Companys CEO, offering a behind-the-scenes account of the challenges he facedfrom getting the job just weeks before a worldwide pandemic, to the shifting political landscape, to his ousting given Bob Igers apparent desire to return.

In 1993, Bob Chapek began his career at the Walt Disney Company as the marketing director for home video. After twenty-seven years of hard work, climbing the corporate ladder, and garnering respect across the wide variety of businesses that Disney has, he earned the most coveted (and scrutinized) position of all: In 2020, he was named CEO of the Walt Disney Company.

Born and raised in small-town Indiana by a World War IIveteran father, Chapek learned early in life that grit, resilience, and curiosity can take you far. These values are what got him to Disn