\nDr. John C. Malone este pre\u015fedintele consiliului director al gigantului mass-media Liberty Media Corporation, Liberty Interactive Corporation (care de\u0163ine ac\u0163iuni \u00een diferite companii de comer\u0163 video \u015fi digital), Liberty Broadband Corporation \u015fi \u00een grupul de telecomunica\u0163ii \u015fi servicii TV Liberty Global. De\u0163ine totodat\u0103 49% din postul de televiziune Starz \u015fi 29% din Discovery Communications. Malone ocup\u0103 locul 184 pe lista miliardarilor lumii, cu o avere estimat\u0103 la \u015fapte miliarde de dolari.<\/p>\n
\nJohn C. Malone s-a n\u0103scut la data de 7 martie 1941 \u00een Milford, Connecticut. \u00cen 1959 a absolvit \u015fcoala Hopkins din New Haven, Connecticut, iar \u00een 1963 universitatea Yale, cu specializarea inginerie \u015fi economie. \u015ei-a consolidat preg\u0103tirea teoretic\u0103 printr-un program masteral \u00een inginerie electric\u0103 la Universitatea John Hopkins, \u015fi prin studii doctorale \u00een cercet\u0103ri opera\u0163ionale la John Hopkins, program pe care l-a absolvit \u00een 1967.<\/p>\n
\nMalone \u015fi-a \u00eenceput cariera \u00een 1963, \u00een strategie economic\u0103, cercetare \u015fi dezvoltare \u00een cadrul laboratoarelor Bell Telephone ale grupului de telecomunica\u0163ii american AT&T. Cinci ani mai t\u00e2rziu, s-a al\u0103turat McKinsey & Company; peste doi ani, devenea vicepre\u015fedinte al grupului General Instrument Corporation. Timp de 24 de ani (1973-1996) a fost pe\u015fedinte \u015fi CEO al Tele-Communications (TCI); la 29 de ani, devenea CEO al companiei, atunci \u00eempov\u0103rat\u0103 de datorii, iar \u00eentre 1996 \u015fi 1999, c\u00e2nd TCI a fuzionat cu AT&T, a fost pre\u015fedinte \u015fi CEO al TCI. \u00cen 1998 a v\u00e2ndut compania pentru 48 de miliarde de dolari. \u00cen cei 25 de ani \u00een care s-a aflat la conducerea TCI, a construit frenetic un monopol \u00een pie\u0163ele media \u015fi cablu.<\/p>\n
\nPotrivit c\u0103r\u0163ii \u201eCable Boy: John Malone and the Rise of the Cable Business\u201c, scris\u0103 de editorul The Wall Street Journal Mark Robichaux, Malone este \u201eun erou complicat, concentrat \u015fi perseverent, care \u015fi-a construit imperiul prin inteligen\u0163\u0103, \u00een\u0163elegeri financiare complicate care au ocolit regulile b\u0103ncilor \u015fi taxele \u015fi au \u00eembog\u0103\u0163it mare parte din ac\u0163ionari\u201c.<\/p>\n
\n\u00cen 2005, Malone de\u0163inea 32% din compania media News Corporations \u015fi chiar dac\u0103 doar jum\u0103tate din aceste ac\u0163iuni \u00eei ofereau dreptul de vot, Rupert Murdoch era constant \u00eengrijorat c\u0103 ar putea pierde controlul companiei sale \u00een favoarea lui Malone.<\/p>\n
\nDe\u0163ine \u015fi suprafe\u0163e vaste de p\u0103m\u00e2nt, pe care se afl\u0103 \u015fi Silver Spur Ranches, o companie de ferme de vite r\u0103sp\u00e2ndite \u00een Wyoming, New Mexico \u015fi Colorado. Din 1 februarie 2011, a devenit cel mai mare proprietar de teren din Statele Unite ale Americii, cu 8.500 de kilometri p\u0103tra\u0163i de teren de\u0163inu\u0163i.<\/p>\n
\nMalone este recunoscut \u015fi pentru faptul c\u0103 evit\u0103 lumina reflectoarelor \u015fi stilul de via\u0163\u0103 luxos: un exemplu este faptul c\u0103 \u00ee\u015fi duce familia \u00een vacan\u0163e \u00eentr-o rulot\u0103. \u00cen mediul de afaceri \u015fi-a dob\u00e2ndit porecla de \u201eDarth Vader\u201c, oferit\u0103 de Al Gore \u00een perioada \u00een care era \u015feful TCI \u015fi \u00eencerca s\u0103 \u00eenfr\u00e2ng\u0103 regulile de must-carry care protejau broadcasterii; b\u0103t\u0103lie pe care, \u00een cele din urm\u0103, industria de cablu a pierdut-o \u00een 1997 la Curtea Suprem\u0103.<\/p>\n
\n\u00cen mai 2015, Malone a ar\u0103tat \u00eenc\u0103 o dat\u0103 de ce este cel mai puternic om de afaceri din pia\u0163a de cablu, dup\u0103 ce Charter Communications a anun\u0163at c\u0103 va prelua Time Warner Cable \u015fi Bright House Networks \u00eentr-o tranzac\u0163ie estimat\u0103 la 71 de miliarde de dolari. Dac\u0103 aceasta va fi finalizat\u0103, noua entitate va fi a doua cea mai mare companie de cablu din SUA. Malone de\u0163ine deja procente importante de ac\u0163iuni \u00een Discovery Communications, Lions Gate Entertainment \u015fi canalul de TV Starz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. John C. Malone este pre\u015fedintele consiliului director al gigantului mass-media Liberty Media Corporation, Liberty Interactive Corporation (care de\u0163ine ac\u0163iuni \u00een diferite companii de comer\u0163 video \u015fi digital), Liberty Broadband Corporation \u015fi \u00een grupul de telecomunica\u0163ii \u015fi servicii TV Liberty Global. De\u0163ine totodat\u0103 49% din postul de televiziune Starz \u015fi 29% din Discovery Communications. Malone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3826],"tags":[7172,81,4141,125,272,15646,9470,12825,8887,467,8932],"class_list":["post-137883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special","tag-actiuni","tag-afaceri","tag-cablu","tag-ceo","tag-companie","tag-detinere","tag-discovery","tag-drept","tag-estimare","tag-grup","tag-poveste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}