David Zaslav is a one data point confirmation of the theory that the richest and most powerful people in the world are also the stupidest people in the world - ThreadSky

nameshiv.bsky.social • 19 days ago

David Zaslav is a one data point confirmation of the theory that the richest and most powerful people in the world are also the stupidest people in the world

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scabstation5.bsky.social•19 days ago

Being very good at making money does not make you good at any other step in the process.

mrontology.bsky.social•19 days ago

“Intelligent people are full of doubt, and the stupid ones are full of confidence” Therefore, assuming you’re high enough on the corporate ladder that you have to make decisions, the intelligent people are weeded out. Once you get to the top, there are none.

gaffa.bsky.social•19 days ago

From Yates's "The Second Coming"

midatlantica.bsky.social•19 days ago

Wait until they realize how badly Zaslav screwed up the NBA deal

colin0reilly.bsky.social•19 days ago

Zaslav is unbelievably stupid. As an intern at WB I would read executive memos , many of them can barely write & would literally talk about how their parents were wealthy to get them good jobs 🤣 it was so sad and pathetic, just worthless trash 🗑️

gaffa.bsky.social•19 days ago

My last corporate job was in the late '90s building a website for Lucent. I have a GED, and I was constantly having to rewrite the gibberish being produced by the executives. I don't know how any of these clowns got through college.

justingwallace.bsky.social•19 days ago

Wish I could get paid tens of millions of dollars to rocket multiple IP's into the dirt. Must be a sweet gig.

voxwoman.bsky.social•19 days ago

I thought the first name change had to do with getting out of paying streaming residuals. Maybe this is so they can avoid paying even more money to the creators

cv-danes.com•19 days ago

Another data point being those who thought putting their merchandise under lock and key was good for business.

bento-bongos.bsky.social•19 days ago

And I'm having to sit through discovery's content milling backlog like Most Terrifying Places In America and....

We sacrificed WB for this?

breezycolomb.bsky.social•19 days ago

Every time he takes an L, he should have to pay us, the subscribers, out of his own pocket for the time. Gimme $5 for this nonsense.

cobaltquill.bsky.social•19 days ago

He's a fucking idiot!

fatapollo.bsky.social•19 days ago

The more I dealt with CEOs and Admirals, the more I learned this lesson.

fatapollo.bsky.social•19 days ago

Had an Admiral 'drive' our ship into a jetty because he didn't want a briefing from me.

"Half astern port, half ahead stbd"

"One prop, sir"

"What?"

"We only have one prop on this ship"

BAM

hapchem.bsky.social•19 days ago

isn't that the point? being stupid or evil doesn't have real consequences if you're wealthy enough (and the orange one is in part the result of people with lots of money who don't think there should be any negative consequences for their actions).

gaffa.bsky.social•19 days ago

They've got to be competing for some sort of prize for "Greatest Brand Value Destruction".

Old what's his name is still in the lead with renaming Twitter.

dhaise.bsky.social•19 days ago

I'll never understand how the share price for a studio that shelves completed works for a tax write off is somehow more valuable than one that throws a bone to a dozen little art house films instead.

rangerdonald.bsky.social•19 days ago

Destroy him.

akorengold.bsky.social•19 days ago

As if the convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office isn’t evidence enough

sheareinke.bsky.social•14 days ago

Money! The cheat code to most of life's problems!

vinchenzojackal.bsky.social•19 days ago

No better example of the most foolish people being ultra rich than all the billionaires who continually shoot themselves in the foot and cry out in pain for their extremely obvious mistakes.

shinikage221.bsky.social•19 days ago

"our brand gained popularity, what a genius he is"

All he did was backpedal a dumbass move.

"Truly, a visionary!"

framplings.bsky.social•19 days ago

He probably drank a lot of Coke Zero and New Coke back when he was still becoming a villain.

jthomasalbert.bsky.social•19 days ago

We'll be back to "Home Box Office" in no time.

I hope they bring back the flyover/space logo intro.

lunarhexagon.bsky.social•19 days ago

Every time I hear that theme song, I jam out and get excited…and then I remember it’s 2025 and I’m just watching a YouTube video of the intro.

jthomasalbert.bsky.social•19 days ago

I'm old enough to remember when they would run the announcement:

"Warning: The following feature contains mature themes and content. Due to its graphic nature, Home Box Office will show this feature only at night."

And then the adults would make us go play in the kids' bedroom.

jthomasalbert.bsky.social•19 days ago

"Why does Tony get to stay?"

"He's 14."

"I'm almost 11!"

"Get in the bedroom."

"Aw, man!"

And when they let us back out, Tony was huddled on the couch with a thousand-yard stare.

jthomasalbert.bsky.social•19 days ago

And he refused to tell us all about "The Brood."

hesster56.bsky.social•19 days ago

He and Elon make a thesis.

sorocchungus.bsky.social•19 days ago

Zaslav bad

bytylerhayes.bsky.social•19 days ago

Past "nobody has to suffer" and "everybody gets some choice of what to do in life" I feel like the best argument for socialism is "nobody gets completed insulated from meeting normal people or being told No."

timlagor.bsky.social•19 days ago

At least nobody with power over anyone else

nameshiv.bsky.social•19 days ago

trouble is that history has shown that the ppl running socialist countries also immediately end up in never meet normal ppl or hear no ever again category

bytylerhayes.bsky.social•19 days ago

A big lesson to be learned there that the co-opting of the word "socialist" by totalitarian governments doesn't help with in either direction.

nameshiv.bsky.social•19 days ago

Ah, I dunno, I think authoritarianism is a governance system not an economic system and the Stalins and Pol Pots were very much socialists at heart and in vision and were also terrible people, I don't think no true scotsmaning bad socialist regimes is any diff than when ppl do it with capitalism

jthomasalbert.bsky.social•19 days ago

And the US Founders allegedly believed in individual rights, that every man is created equal.

So they believed in "democracy" in their hearts, I guess?

bytylerhayes.bsky.social•19 days ago

That's a big part of what I mean -- an economic system is intertwined in the cultural conversation with a governance system and that encourages no-true-scotsman fallacies about (like you say) very-much-socialist monsters, and critics abusing the conflation of socialism and despotism.

bytylerhayes.bsky.social•19 days ago

Anyway, sorry to make what was really just us dunking on CEOs and capitalists messy and complex, I'm like Cyclops but my uncontrollable superpower is making things a little uncomfortable.

timlagor.bsky.social•19 days ago

"Socialism" is not terribly useful as a label since people hold such widely different definitions. I wouldn't define USSR as socialist from Stalin onwards (though I cede he was at least arguably socialist).

Know little about Pol Pot.

bobbybeeblebrox.bsky.social•19 days ago

Mark Cuban does a lot to support that theory as well

bryanquinn1981.bsky.social•19 days ago

Further proof of the accuracy of one of the world’s finest documentaries about the rich and powerful, Blackadder.

goaskalis.bsky.social•19 days ago

They're just spinning in the middle of the pool they can't touch any sides or bottom and they have no idea where they are anymore

eskargo.bsky.social•19 days ago

Isn't that what it was originally called?

hollypeppers.bsky.social•19 days ago

Money makes people stupid

jerandom.bsky.social•19 days ago

I think Zaslav might be the living embodiment of the "sunk cost fallacy"

Just shoving more money in every time one of his ideas turns out to be terrible

markr51.bsky.social•19 days ago

Mixed in with the idiots are the ones who aren’t idiots but are just plain evil.

brazuca.bsky.social•19 days ago

Techbros are the same. They all think they know everything but refuse to learn or even respect those who have

nameshiv.bsky.social•19 days ago

The board that keeps this guy here paying him millions a year to learn from first principles on the job what the average 4 year old already knows are actually stupider

ahmadjohary16.bsky.social•19 days ago

My friend Shiv, please quote my post. Please don't ignore me. Please, I really wait for you to always be online on the platform to communicate with you. Don't let me down, my brother.🤍

pumpkinpal.bsky.social•19 days ago

Any executive appointed after 1980 can’t lead… all they know is share buybacks , sell off they assets, cut, be layoffs, eat hot chip & lie

misterrora.bsky.social•19 days ago

You know they could have saved the money from the filed rebrand and just released Batgirl and Coyote vs. ACME.

misterrora.bsky.social•19 days ago

*failed

cfhirsch.bsky.social•19 days ago

The very definition of failing upwards:

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-david-zaslav-pay-52-million-1236367163/

timlagor.bsky.social•19 days ago

This looks like a man reversing one of his earlier bad decisions. That practically puts him above average.

ironyuppie.com•19 days ago

howard lutnik would like to have a word

nutlick.bsky.social•19 days ago

I am MAX stupid

scottpaules.bsky.social•19 days ago

Remember when the CEO of JCPenney decided his customers don't really care about sales? 9 times out of 10, Rich=Dumb.

tanpenguin.bsky.social•19 days ago

America has a problem with believing that wealth equals intelligence. Mostly, it means that you were lucky. 🍀

Even people who worked very, very hard for their success were ALSO lucky. Just think of all the people who worked very, very hard and didn't succeed.

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