Oh No, Rationality Prevailed in the Warner Bros. Auction
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It took a price of $111 billion, backed by $46 billion from tech billionaire Larry Ellison, plus the promise to pay $7 billion in compensation if the deal failed.
The final numbers that saw Paramount Skydance Corp. push rival Netflix Inc. out of the battle for Hollywood studio peer Warner Bros Discovery Inc. are epic. But in the final analysis, this auction stopped short of total irrationality.
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