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Big Daddy Zaslav and 'Too Big to Fail' Mergers

from A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374 · #374

2 min

Tim explains David Zaslav's strategy of building companies so enormous that failure becomes diffuse and unaccountable, comparing it to how banks became too big to fail.

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  • Making companies as big as possible creates diffusion of responsibility—no one can know why they fail
  • Marvel movies failed because after 15 years adults finally stopped wanting to watch people in costumes
  • Tim describes Zaslav's strategy: merge Paramount with Warner Brothers to create something too big to fail
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