BamTech Media, Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, Lucasfilm, Club Penguin and Maker Studios, as well as its agreement reached in December 2017 to acquire most of the 21st Century Fox assets. In 2010, he arranged the sale of Miramax to Filmyard Holdings. In March 2018, Mayer was named chairman of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International, a new segment division, to head Disney's global streaming business, ad sales and distribution and the media and studio operations of the company. Mayer led the successful launches of Disney+ in 2019 and of ESPN+ in 2018, and led Hulu after Disney acquired majority ownership in 2019. In May 2020, Mayer resigned from The Walt Disney Company to become COO of Chinese internet technology company ByteDance Ltd and CEO of its popular social media app TikTok. On August 26, Mayer announced that he would step down from both roles and leave ByteDance altogether, three months after taking the position. His decision was reported by the New York Times as due to the sharp changes in the political environment in which ByteDance was ordered to sell its U.S. operations by the Donald Trump administration, effectively eliminating the role Mayer had accepted, though the "imminent" sale was subsequently halted by the Chinese government, and White House attention to it waned. In October 2020, he and Tom Staggs, also formerly of Disney, led the founding of special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Forest Road Acquisition Corp. The company began public trading on November 25, 2020 (NYSE:FRX), having raised over $300 million in capital, and having been joined by Shaquille O'Neal, Mark Burg, Martin Luther King III, and others. In February 2021, Forest Road Acquisition Corp. entered a 2.9 billion agreement to merge with Beachbody and Myx Fitness Holdings. On February 18, 2021, the company filed for an IPO for a second SPAC, Forest Road Acquisition Corp II (NYSE:FRXB), of which Mayer and Staggs will be co-chairs and co-CEOs. The new consumer-facing technology, media and telecommunications SPAC raised $350 million during its IPO. In November 2020, Mayer joined Access Industries as a senior advisor. In March 2021, he was named chairman of the board of directors of its subsidiary DAZN Group, parent company of DAZN, a global sports streaming platform most active in European and Asian markets. On November 3, 2021, he became as a consultant of Discovery's streaming services. References Living people Harvard Business School alumni Disney executives MIT School of Engineering