In 1934, Walt Disney risked everything he owned on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!
Animated shorts were popular.
Nobody believed audiences would sit through an 83-minute cartoon.
The Great Depression
America was deep in the Great Depression.
Unemployment was sky-high.
People queued for hours in bread lines.
Families were losing their homes, savings, and futures.
Snow White was dubbed “Disney’s Folly.”
Everyone in Hollywood thought it would fail.
❌ Animated films were short, cheap, and comedic—never emotional.
❌ It was the middle of a global financial collapse—people thought it was financially reckless.
❌ Disney poured everything into it: $1.5 million, his house, the studio’s future.
But Walt Disney had multipotentialite energy.
He was a massive risk-taker.
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” — Walt Disney
He pushed himself and his animators to the edge of burnout.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs took over 3 years to make.
Disney and his team innovated with multi-plane cameras, custom colour palettes, and experimental storytelling.
This wasn’t just a project—
It was a full-blown creative reinvention.
🍎 The Risk Paid Off…Big Time
When Snow White premiered on December 21st, 1937,
People wept in the theatre.
It was stunning.
Emotional.
Unlike anything the world had seen.
It became the highest-grossing film of its time.
A global hit that pulled Disney Studios out of near-bankruptcy.
🧠 Why This Matters
In the middle of the worst economic collapse of the century,
Walt Disney bet everything he had on making the audience feel something.
He created a feeling—a magical escape from reality when people needed it most.
“For every laugh, there should be a tear.” — Walt Disney
For 83 minutes, broke families felt wonder again.
And that mattered.
While others creators cut back and played safe,
He doubled down on using technology to leverage creative expression + human connection
🧨 For Creators and Solopreneurs Today
This is our metaphor.
We’re entering another chaotic time—
AI upheaval, economic uncertainty, trade wars, and political madness.
The global economy is hinged on the egos of the unhinged.
The world feels unstable.
But history tells us that when conventional norms are disrupted, multi-dimensional creators build new ones.
The 2008 recession launched the freelancing boom.
2020 exploded the creator economy.
2025? That chapter is being written now, and it will most likely be a combination of creativity, community and AI.
⚡️ But One Thing Won’t Change:
What people need amid chaos is to feel something.
AI is an opportunity to leverage creativity, not replace it.
To remove bottlenecks.
To eliminate the tasks that trigger executive dysfunction.
But it will never replace authentic human connection.
People want hope.
They want escapism.
They want to belong—to reclaim identity in a world that is rapidly changing.
They want new ways to create financial stability.
They want more clients.
🔁 The Great Reinvention
Something is happening.
As Bob Dylan sang, “The times, they are a-changin.”
The economy is out of our control.
But jumping on creative entrepreneurial opportunities within the chaos is not.
It’s not time to freeze.
It’s time to experiment.
The AI revolution is just beginning—it will change everything.
But it won’t be a single moment.
It will be an accumulation of tiny ones
🎯 Now Is the Time
There will be new opportunities within your business or creative fields — guaranteed!
Seek them out.
Test, iterate, and test some more.
It’s time for something weird.
Brave.
Emotionally resonant.
Something that channels opportunities within the chaos—
For you and for those you help.
It’s time to connect.
It’s time to create.
Fuck perfection, fuck caring what others think, fuck the fear of failure.
Now is a time to create and not consume!
Get your weird little ideas into the world.
Reclaim your identity.
And be more weird!
Acknowledge the risk and run with it. You might actually win.