The Walt Disney Company: The World’s Most Versatile Entertainer

WRITTEN BY DANIEL SHVARTSMAN | UPDATED NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The root of The Walt Disney Company’s success is curiosity, as Walt Disney himself once defined it. Because curiosity kept leading Walt Disney down new paths, his business grew into a vast empire, the most successful company in the most influential industry of the global economy: the entertainment sector. Though begun as a modest animation studio, The Walt Disney Company has gradually expanded to include affiliate television and film companies, merchandise sales, international theme parks, worldwide vacation clubs, classical and innovative movies, consumer products, and interactive gaming sites.

Disney (DIS) is so powerful that it dwarfs other mass media titans. Walt Disney boasted a market cap of $181.39 billion on September 26, 2022.