Billionaire media sage John Malone, who has constructed and presided over various influential corporations in telecom, cable, sports activities and digital, will publish his memoir in September.
Simon & Schuster stated Wednesday it is going to publish Born to be Wired: Classes from a Lifetime Remodeling Tv, Wiring America for the Web, and Rising Method One, Discovery, Sirius XM, and the Atlanta Braves. The e-book, because of hit shops September 2, lets Malone inform the story of his key position within the progress of cable TV, the launch of high-speed web and lots of different chapters in his many years within the business.
Malone, who will flip 84 subsequent month, is chairman of Liberty Media and a member of Warner Bros. Discovery’s board of administrators.
Whereas he seems often at Liberty’s annual investor day and at occasional conferences, Malone maintains a reasonably low public profile however his insights journey. With a doctorate in operations analysis from Johns Hopkins, “Dr. Malone,” as he’s typically known as, fascinates these within the media enterprise as few others along with his acumen and strategic considering. He’s recognized for masterminding complicated monetary transactions geared toward minimizing tax and debt burdens for traders. The 2022 merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia by way of an obscure automobile often called a Reverse Morris Belief was a signature Malone transaction.
Mark Robichaux, a journalist who wrote the 2002 e-book Cable Cowboy about Malone, is credited as an editor of the memoir.
Malone constructed Telecommunications Inc. right into a high U.S. cable operator, crowning the run by engineering a $48 billion merger with AT&T. It was one of many largest M&A offers in media on the time and stays a landmark within the pay-TV period.
Within the e-book, Simon & Schuster stated, Malone provides an insider account of launching a few of cable’s first networks, together with Discovery, QVC, TBS, and Black Leisure Tv. He additionally takes readers via the technique behind the biggest media mergers of our time, reminiscent of Warner Bros. Discovery, and the worldwide live performance agency Stay Nation Leisure, which mixed with Ticketmaster. Malone additionally touches on his relationships with different media titans of the age, together with Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Barry Diller, Reed Hastings and Mark Zuckerberg.
Alongside along with his philanthropic endeavors, Malone is without doubt one of the largest landowners in America, controlling greater than two million acres designated for sustainability and conservation.
“Over a lifetime of enterprise offers, probably the most useful foreign money has been relationships,” Malone stated. “This e-book is concerning the individuals who modified my considering, the hard-won classes that just about broke me, and methods that helped me navigate chaos and carve my very own path to success.”
Stephanie Frerich, VP and Government Editor at Simon & Schuster, acquired world, audio, and first serial rights from Robert B. Barnett of Williams & Connolly.
