Jeffrey Katzenberg

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Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950) is an American media executive and film producer recognized for his leadership in reviving feature animation and advancing digital media ventures. and Beverly Hills Cop (1984)., Beauty and the Beast (1991)—the first animated film nominated for Best Picture—and partnerships like the one with Pixar that produced Toy Story (1995)..( DreamWorks Animation grew into the world's largest animation studio before its sale to Comcast in 2016.( Subsequently, Katzenberg launched Quibi in April 2020, a mobile-first streaming platform for short-form content that secured $1.75 billion in funding but ceased operations after just six months due to low subscriber uptake amid the COVID-19 pandemic, marking a high-profile entrepreneurial setback.(

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Jeffrey Katzenberg ( KAT-sən-burg; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor and film producer. He served as chair of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. Following his departure, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994, where he served as the company's chief executive officer (CEO) and executive producer of its animated franchises—including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon—until stepping down from the title in 2016.

He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in the same year, which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi in 2020, a defunct short-form mobile video platform that lost US$1.35 billion in seven months. Katzenberg has also been involved in politics as an election donor. With active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was named "one of Hollywood's premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party's top national fund-raisers".