The New KING of Media - The Billionaire You’re Not Watching Closely Enough
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Patrick Bet-David highlights how Larry Ellison is quietly becoming one of the most powerful figures in media. Oracle is set to acquire TikTok, while Skydance, backed by Ellison, is acquiring Warner Bros. following its recent acquisition of Paramount.
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| 0:00.0 | When you think about a power player in media, who do you think about? You may say, well, maybe the Murdox, they own News Corp, they all Fox, Wall Street, or maybe Reed Hastings, Netflix, maybe a little bit of Bezos, maybe Musk. Do you know a power player is quietly coming up that two years ago nobody was talking about? It was a small little company called Skydance, a billion dollar on top line revenue, maybe $90, $100 million in EBIT is what they had. Yeah, they co-produced Top Gun. Yeah, they co-produced Star Trek and a couple other movies. And then all of a sudden, they buy Paramount for $8 billion. You know what? Paramount owns just to kind of give you an idea. Transformers. It owns Pluto, BET, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon. |
| 0:39.9 | It owns CBS News, Free Press, CSI, The Godfather, Mission Impossible, NCIS. |
| 0:46.0 | And then gradually, these guys make an offer to buy Time Warner. |
| 0:51.0 | What? |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | And it's gonna get approved? Most, who are these guys? Wait till you hear who are still about to own? |
| 0:58.0 | Here's Time Warner, by the way. They're gonna own Discovery. They're gonna own HBO. They're gonna own HGTV, TBS, TNT, TLC, CNN, DC Comics, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings. |
| 1:13.6 | And on top of that, guess who else they're about to own? |
| 1:18.4 | TikTok. |
| 1:20.4 | You know who we're talking about that? |
| 1:22.4 | We're talking about Larry Ellison's son named David Allison. |
| 1:30.3 | That's who we're going to talk about today. If you're all you added this video, give you a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. |
| 1:36.3 | Let's get right into it. Larry Ellison. Do you know what Larry Ellison is worth? He's worth $365 billion. |
| 1:42.3 | You know how much his net worth has increased just this year? Almost $150 billion just in 2025. So naturally, if he's got a son, his son's going to be ambitious. So he's like, hey, son, you want to do something? Run a business. Hey, Dad, I took Skydance from zero to a billion with $100 million even. I think we can do more. Let's by paramount let's go by time Warner let's go by TikTok a lot's been going on and |
| 2:04.9 | this happens sky dance in 2010 when they first formed and then they bought |
| 2:09.3 | Paramount last year eight billion dollars we talked about it earlier and then |
| 2:12.6 | now they're talking about Warner Brothers at twenty dollars a share could be worth |
| 2:16.2 | tens of billions of dollars depending on them picking it up or not I don't think anyone's gonna stop them to be honest with you because he's been a friendly player with the White House and they're probably gonna prove it so now you got Skydance they buy Paramount they buy Time Warner and then you get TikTok you tell me who asked that Elon's got got X massive. He doesn't have a CNN. He doesn't have a |
| 2:38.3 | TikTok. He doesn't have. This is a very, very. And by the way, craziest thing is whenever they |
| 2:46.0 | ever talk about who Elon Musk's mentor is that he goes to for advice, you know, whose name comes up, |
| 2:51.4 | Larry Ellison, where Elon's like, look, I'm going to be buying up, you know, Tesla, you may want |
| 2:55.3 | to put some money into it. He's like, how much money do you think I should put into? Maybe I'll give you a billion. He said, well, listen, it's not like I need any money, but I would put two instead of one. Ellison's like, no problem. I'll put $2 billion into Tesla. They have a very, very good |
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