William Cohen: There were a number of important moments where the death spiral began. The decision to sell NBCU in 2009 without an auction for a total of around $30 billion to Comcast, he says. Number four was bringing in Nelson Peltz at trying partners to, as a hedge fund, an activist hedge fund. "It was basically in hospice from June 2017 on," said Cohen.
Before the mega-cap tech giants, there was General Electric.
William D. Cohan is a Founding Partner of Puck and the author of “Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.” Cohan joined Ricky Mulvey to discuss:
- Jack Welch, and the religion of earnings consistency. - The mythology behind General Electric’s birth. -General Electric’s “time of death”. - Why Cohan believes a combination between Warner Brothers Discovery and NBCUniversal is “inevitable.”
Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: William D. Cohan Engineer: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl, Tim Sparks, Annie Franks
Companies discussed: GE, DIS, WBD, CMCSA
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