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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
Description: Chris Cocks is the CEO of Hasbro, a company that just turned 100 this year. Hasbro is a huge company, making everything from Transformers to Lincoln Logs to My Little Pony and Monopoly. It also makes Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, which are massive and growing businesses. Chris was the head of that division, called Wizards of the Coast, before he became the CEO of Hasbro overall last year. Since then, he’s started the process of restructuring the company, which is pure Decoder bait. He’s also dealt with some crises: He’s fended off an activis...