Julia Alexander
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609 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 11 Jun
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And in part because they have the same businesses.
They're coming from the same position.
The only difference is that David Ellison has a personal bank from someone valued at a couple hundred billion dollars who can kind of come in and say, you know, his father, Larry Ellison, and we'll just continue to fund this.
But it –
There's no discernible difference between what David Ellison wants to do, at least that he's publicly said, versus what David Zaslav tried to do for the last few years.
I think if you compare the eras of Warner Brothers and Warner Media and Warner Brothers Discovery and whatever else it's been over the last 20 years, Time Warner, I think when you look at it,
The only person who really came in and said, I have an idea for what we want to do to make this a differentiated company in 2022, 2021, was Jason Collar, who was this kind of technologist futurist who was the CEO of WarnerMedia for a couple of years, but who also damaged the reputation of that company with Hollywood.
Yeah, he's more Silicon Valley in that way than he is Hollywood.
But I think if you look at what he tried to do with the WarnerMedia assets, he said we should have a CNN streaming service that was CNN+.
And that didn't go anywhere.
It launched for a couple of weeks and then it was shut down.
And so what are they doing now?
Mark Thompson, who runs CNN, is going to launch a streaming service.
And so this idea of what Jason Kolar wanted to do, which may or may not have worked long term, I think was the last point that there was a plan to do something on the innovation side with the assets as opposed to just collecting more assets.
And under Zaslav and under Paramount's plan, it is just a collection of the assets.
couple of different theories on this and they get more outlandish and sobriety as they go on.
But there's part of me that sees almost as parallel to what Larry Ellison might be thinking of doing.
And I don't speak to Larry Ellison on the regular, so I'm really just kind of projecting here what he might want to do to why AT&T originally bought Time Warner, which was this idea of things are happening on phones and
And I want to have some level of investment in TikTok.
I want to have some level of investment in what people are watching.
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