Mike Schur
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he just bought it a while ago and has sort of, you know, made it his house.
He lives there now.
He livesβ
He owns and lives in Hawaii.
Yeah, he surfs with his surfs.
Yeah.
So his son, David Ellison, who's I think 42 or so, is a sort of like succession style heir to the throne who has, I don't know what he's done in his life.
I mean, he's an environmentalist.
David, his son, was the guy who essentially, backed by his dad and others, bought Paramount Studios and Skydance as the other sort of entity.
And very quickly after that acquisition, Paramount had declined significantly in value.
And so he sort of scooped that up and took on a ton of debt.
And now he's trying to roll that into buying Warner Brothers under the Paramount Skydance banner.
And in order to accomplish that, he has assembled a true just legion of doom of financial backers, including, I
qatari royal wealth fund maybe the folks from abu dhabi and also very importantly jared kushner son-in-law of current my guy yes yeah that's joe's guy yeah joe loves jared who is very clearly part of this bid because they believe that part of their advantage here is an inside track
to president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, who has announced boldly and publicly that he intends to essentially decide how this all plays out.
It's not a job typically undertaken by the sitting president of the United States to just rub his hands together in glee and say, who wants my approval here for a deal like this?
But he's made it clear that that is the case.
And so that group believes that they have the inside track through, among other things, Jared Kushner and his side door access to the Oval Office.
Nafli.
Yeah, Nafli.