Conversations With Leaders From Leading Organizations – Marvel: Peter Cuneo

Guy Raz invites you to listen as he talks with visionary leaders of some of the leading organizations in their field. Along the way, you’ll hear accounts of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph, as the leaders reveal their secrets on their way to the top. These are stories that didn’t make it into their company bios, and valuable lessons for anyone trying to make it in business. These are stories that did not enter the DNA of the organization, and important lessons for anyone trying to do this in business.

Today, Marvel is one of the most substantial forces in American media, but when Peter Cuneo joined the company as CEO in 1999, it was a struggling publishing house teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Ten years later, Disney bought Marvel for $4.5 billion. Cuneo tells his unlikely origin story and how he became the “turnaround superhero.” 

You can listen to the podcast at the link below or through the different podcast platfroms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple.