Yes, just to add to this: in the article by Nate [0] he says that he tried to buy the IP but Disney refused because they were unhappy with some of his prior com

Yes, just to add to this: in the article by Nate [0] he says that he tried to buy the IP but Disney refused because they were unhappy with some of his prior comments. "I did approach Disney a year or two ago, through my agent, about acquiring the remaining IP. ... We were told to basically get lost: ABC was annoyed with my critical public comments about their management of FiveThirtyEight. It apparently wasn’t a long conversation, so I don’t have a lot more color to report than that." [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703