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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jeffrey Katzenberg

"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology"

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Katzenberg’s line has the polished vagueness of an executive soundbite, and that’s the point: it flatters everyone’s lived experience of whiplash change while quietly absolving decision-makers of agency. “The thing that’s changed the most” is framed like a neutral weather report, not a choice made by studios, streamers, or investors. By pinning transformation on “rapid technology,” he makes disruption feel inevitable, almost natural, rather than the outcome of business models that chased scale, data, and platform control.

Coming from a producer who’s moved through multiple regimes of Hollywood power, the quote doubles as a résumé compressed into a shrug. Katzenberg lived the shift from theatrical dominance to home video, DVD to digital, broadcast schedules to on-demand, and now the algorithmic stack that decides what gets made, marketed, and buried. “Rapid” is doing heavy lifting: it signals urgency and excuses misfires. If the ground is always shifting, then pivots, layoffs, and strategic “reinventions” start to look like prudence instead of instability.

There’s also a subtle defense of craft under the cloak of tech talk. Producers like Katzenberg traffic in stories, talent, and taste - things that resist quantification. When he foregrounds technology as the main variable, he’s drawing a border: the fundamentals of storytelling remain, but the pipes, distribution, and attention economy have been radically rewired. It’s less prophecy than positioning: an industry veteran claiming realism, and a seat at the table, in a world increasingly run by the people who built the table.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Katzenberg, Jeffrey. (2026, January 15). The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-thing-thats-changed-the-most-has-just-been-158616/

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Katzenberg, Jeffrey. "The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-thing-thats-changed-the-most-has-just-been-158616/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-thing-thats-changed-the-most-has-just-been-158616/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950) is a Producer from USA.

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