But he is definitely leaning on the idea that he's building a media company that is also a tech company.
That's partly because David Ellison isn't a tech mogul.
But this reminds me a bit of the 2015 era when digital publishers like BuzzFeed and Vox Media told investors they weren't media companies but tech companies that made media.
The bigger problem with the tech + media pitch isn't that tech and media aren't intertwined.
AdvertisementThe real problem that Paramount — and just about every other big media company — has these days isn't that its tech isn't good enough.
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