David Zaslav isn’t just making himself rich selling Warner to Paramount — ask his employees
David Zaslav earned over $800 million from the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Skydance, while also fostering an ownership culture that provided stock awards to nearly half of the company's employees. Many employees saw significant financial gains as the stock price rose from around $7 to $31 per share. This approach, inspired by Jack Welch's leadership at GE, aimed to align employee and shareholder interests during a period of financial restructuring and industry challenges.
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Charles Gasparino Media on the money David Zaslav isn’t just making himself rich selling Warner to Paramount — ask his employees By Charles Gasparino Published May 1, 2026, 7:00 a.m. ET Yes, David Zaslav made a boatload of money selling Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Skydance – a payout worth more than $800 million that shareholders begrudged him earlier this month in the form of a non-binding vote against it. What’s less talked about is how he also spread the wealth. Specifically, the media mogul known as “Zas” brought an ownership culture to the owner of Warner Bros., HBO and CNN when he took over in 2022, with nearly half his 35,000 employees receiving stock awards as part of their compensation.
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