The WBD president and CEO would trade his 21 million shares for half a billion dollars at Paramount’s proposed price point.
A Warner Bros. Discovery sale would bode very well for David Zaslav — reportedly bringing him something near $500 million.
According to a report from Semafor, Zaslav currently has 21 million shares of the entertainment company for which he is president and CEO, all of which would be vested as soon as a prospective sale went through. Given the price points that companies like Paramount have put up for a WBD acquisition (one of them being $60 billion), a company merger could see Zaslav personally getting an immediate return of half a billion.
