AI & I · Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Fred Graver reflects on his extensive career path, starting from typing at National Lampoon, writing for David Letterman and Norman Lear, working with Disney Imagineers, and serving as head of TV at Twitter during its early startup phase.
“And my first kind of tech gig was I was working with the Disney Imagineers. And there was this effort back in the day. It was Mike Ovitz and Jeffrey Katzenberg and those guys. And they were terrified. This was like the late 90s, early 2000s. They were terrified by the Internet.”