{"id":12851438,"date":"2025-12-16T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12851438"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:37:29","slug":"larry-ellisons-big-dumb-gift-to-his-large-adult-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2025\/12\/16\/larry-ellisons-big-dumb-gift-to-his-large-adult-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Ellison\u2019s big dumb gift to his large adult son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Larry Ellison\u2019s big dumb gift to his large adult son<\/a><\/h2>\n

A plan so astonishingly dumb, even Warner Bros. doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019ll happen.<\/em><\/p>\n

By Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Media is a business about dreams, and Larry Ellison\u2019s son is dreaming big. This might explain why the case for Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is so incoherent.<\/div>\n
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In October, Warner Bros. put itself up for sale,\u00a0leading to a number of bids<\/a>. The two we are concerned with are a bid from Netflix and another from two nepo babies: David Ellison and Jared Kushner. David Ellison is the head of Paramount, but most famous for being Larry\u2019s son. Jared Kushner is most famous for being Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, though he also got his start in business by\u00a0taking over his felon father\u2019s firm<\/a>\u00a0when Charles was in prison; his firm is involved in the financing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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David Ellison\u2019s plan to merge Paramount with Warner Bros. is incoherent and largely seen as a vanity project backed by his billionaire father, Larry Ellison. The deal doesn\u2019t offer a compelling business rationale: Paramount is smaller, lacks a dominant streaming platform, and has no significant tech advantage. David\u2019s vague talk about combining media and tech with AI buzzwords lacks substance, and his leadership experience is thin. Meanwhile, the financing relies heavily on Larry\u2019s Oracle stock \u2014 a risky move considering Oracle\u2019s deeper focus on AI infrastructure. In contrast, Netflix\u2019s competing bid actually makes strategic sense. Overall, the Ellison proposal looks like a costly attempt to buy influence and prestige, not a smart business move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larry Ellison\u2019s big dumb gift to his large adult son A plan so astonishingly dumb, even Warner Bros. doesn\u2019t believe it\u2019ll happen. By Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge\u00a0 Media is a business about dreams, and Larry Ellison\u2019s son is dreaming big. This might explain why the case for Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12851489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22331,26922,21,1,12,25391,26295],"tags":[26310,371,26302],"class_list":{"0":"post-12851438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence-ai-generative-ai-chatgpt-natural-language-processing","8":"category-market-news","9":"category-available","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"category-phils-favorites","12":"category-members-corner","13":"category-technology","14":"tag-ai","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12851438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12851448,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12851438\/revisions\/12851448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12851489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12851438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12851438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12851438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}