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AI & I · Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Fred Graver Details Career Transitions from Disney Imagineering to Twitter

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.

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The tape

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“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.”
Fred Graver
Heard on AI & I — “Can You Use AI To Make Good Art? — With Fred Graver”, published Wednesday, October 28, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Fred Graver Details Career Transitions from Disney Imagineering to Twitter — Heardvine