Hollywood Veteran Katzenberg on AI: ‘If Change is Uncomfortable, Irrelevance is Going to be Harder’

Former DreamWorks and Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg discussed the similarities between the arrival of AI technologies in the business world today and the arrival of computer-generated animation technologies in Hollywood in the 1990s.

By Scott Kirsner · June 4, 2025 · 1 min read

Hari Ravichandran of Aura, Jeffrey Katzenberg of WndrCo, and Ina Fried of Axios at the AI + NY event. One of the kick-off speakers at today’s Axios AI conference in New York today was former DreamWorks and Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg. Katzenberg now runs the venture fund…

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