Look no further than David Ellison’s father for reasons number one, two and three behind Paramount Skydance’s reportedly likely and imminent bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Namely — it’s a rounding error on the Oracle co-founder’s balance sheet. Ditto if you’re asking why David is paying Bari Weiss as much as $150 million to sell her growing Free Press media empire .

Yes, the younger Ellison just pulled off a massively complicated and expensive $8 billion deal to purchase the giant Paramount media empire. But as they say in the old neighborhood, the tech nepo baby, especially most recently, has “a lot of scarola” to throw around thanks to Daddy Warbucks, aka his father and partner in the newly formed Skydance Paramount, software tycoon Larry Ellison.

Bari Weiss will be the

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