Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business w/ Kyle Grieve (TIP619)

Kyle Grieve discusses the book "Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business". The episode covers Malone's value creation, shareholder alignment, monopoly-like business building, competitor and regulator management, Wall Street's value perception training, tax aversion, simultaneous self and shareholder enrichment, and more!
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:06:48 - Why John Malone chose to work for TCI at a significant discount
00:09:06 - How Malone kept costs down to maximize cash flow
00:15:57 - How John Malone used his knowledge of scale and leverage to build TCI
00:18:41 - How John created his accounting terms to best display TCI's abilities to create value
00:27:40 - How Malone used his scale advantages to secure better rates from programmers
00:36:38 - The monopoly-like power that TCI could yield that featured its bargaining power
00:39:21 - How Malone created life-changing wealth for himself from the Liberty Media spin-off
00:44:03 - Why John invented the 500-channel offering and how it protected the cable industry
00:47:06 - Malone's tactics to try and divert attention away from TCI's monopoly-like power
00:52:30 - How John Malone quickly improved TCI's financial statements through industry consolidation
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- Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business by Mark Robichaux: amzn.to/3TR9T5o
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[@josephapollon79]

He is a great business man.

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[@ElLotdog]

I see a lot of similarities between Liberty Media and Constellation Software

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