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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 52:01 David Rosenthal Of all the traditional media companies, more valuable than Time Warner, more valuable than Viacom, more valuable than Fox and News Corp.
- ▶ 1:44:39 David Rosenthal Viacom is about to launch a lawsuit against YouTube to try and sue it out of existence.
- ▶ 3:00:31 David Rosenthal But the very next day, Disney stock drops 10%, and over the next couple days, Fox, Time Warner, and Discovery all experienced similar drawdowns, and Viacom, which people view as even more indexed to
- ▶ 3:02:34 David Rosenthal Viacom re-merges with CBS, but none of those brands are any good, so they decide to name themselves Paramount after the studio that they own.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:31 Ben Gilbert In particular, there was a giant suit from Viacom.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:54:01 David Rosenthal Viacom, which owned MTV, thought that that was worth seven hundred and fifty million dollars, which is what they offered to buy the company for in the summer of 2006.
- ▶ 1:54:23 David Rosenthal And Yahoo was willing to top Viacom and pay a billion dollars to buy the company.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 9:57 Dara Khosrowshahi Sumner Redstone, who was running Viacom, had come to an agreement to buy Paramount Pictures, which was Barry's old home, and Barry thought that he was getting a steal, so he decided to go after Paramount in a hostile tender offer, to come…