Who Owns Disney? Six Myths About Steve Jobs At Pixar

Disney is owned by people like Robert A. Iger, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company, since 2005. Others like Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder, and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook won’t probably seek re-election as board members, as companies like Twitter and Facebook have become way more media companies than they used to be. When it comes to institutional investors with more than 5% of the company, Blackrock Inc. with 5.5% and The Vanguard Group with 6.1% respectively owned Disney stocks in 2017.
As The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 it had also a long history in terms of stock ownership. It is interesting to revisit the story of how Steve Jobs owned almost 8% of the company got for a few years.
