Billionaire media sage John Malone, who has constructed and presided over plenty of influential firms in telecom, cable, sports activities and digital, will publish his memoir in September.
Simon & Schuster mentioned Wednesday it’s going to publish Born to be Wired: Classes from a Lifetime Reworking Tv, Wiring America for the Web, and Rising System One, Discovery, Sirius XM, and the Atlanta Braves. The ebook, as a consequence of hit shops September 2, lets Malone inform the story of his key function within the development of cable TV, the launch of high-speed web and plenty of different chapters in his many years within the trade.
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 usually 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 usually known as, fascinates these within the media enterprise as few others together with his acumen and strategic pondering. He’s recognized for masterminding advanced monetary transactions aimed toward minimizing tax and debt burdens for traders. The 2022 merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia through an obscure car referred to as a Reverse Morris Belief was a signature Malone transaction.
Mark Robichaux, a journalist who wrote the 2002 ebook 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 ebook, Simon & Schuster mentioned, 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 by the technique behind the biggest media mergers of our time, akin to Warner Bros. Discovery, and the worldwide live performance agency Dwell 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 together with his philanthropic endeavors, Malone is among 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 priceless forex has been relationships,” Malone mentioned. “This ebook is in regards to the individuals who modified my pondering, 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.