David Ellison

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414 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2018 last heard 16 Jun

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Bloomberg Talks · David Ellison Talks Media Deal Making at Bloomberg Screentime · 9 Oct 2025 podcast

And, you know, we had a VHS collection of, you know, at home where like me and my sister's idea of like the greatest day on a Sunday was let's go watch all the Rocky movies back to back in one day or let's go watch the Star Wars trilogy.

So I have literally loved this business and love storytelling since I was a kid.

I went to school for it.

I built Skydance and launched it in 2010, really with the understanding that the disruption between the bridge that has been built between Silicon Valley and Hollywood was going to happen.

We saw that over 15 years ago.

We built a company that was the tip of the spear for that disruption on the content creation side, with one of our guiding thematics always being where entertainment is heading, right?

The Slate deal we did where we got all of the Crown Jewels and Paramount's franchises without taking things that are normally put into those kind of deals was revolutionary at the time.

Our second series, Grace and Frankie, we took to Netflix before House of Cards was released because we believed in the anything, anywhere, anytime, and any device before it had been proven.

We've taken early bets into interactive and virtual reality, and we took 10-pole movies direct to consumer during a time period where we thought that that was the right thing to do.

So from that standpoint, I have always loved and believed in this business.

I love storytelling.

I believe in the value of basically entertainment and media and

what these stories mean, and it's a privilege to get to tell them in our culture.

And as it relates to news, which is the other part of the question you're asking, we really do want to be in the trust business first and foremost.

We really do want to talk to that 70% of the audience, and we want to get back to having that level of civil discourse.

So none of those things that have been talked about have ever been discussed inside of my relationship with my dad.

Yeah, so look, I'd say two things to that, right?

Like fundamentally, we are in the business of building, creating, and protecting value of intellectual property.

So we have been in that business.

We always continue to be in that business.

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