{"id":13964,"date":"2025-08-06T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:34:14","slug":"born-to-be-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/06\/born-to-be-wired\/","title":{"rendered":"Born To Be Wired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/john-malone-media-born-to-be-wired-book-excerpt-1236338191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Confessions of John Malone, Media\u2019s Most Misunderstood Mogul<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>In this exclusive excerpt from his new memoir \u2018Born to Be Wired,\u2019 the battle-scarred billionaire candidly reflects on his (mostly) friendly rivalries with Reed Hastings, Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner and how he built a sprawling empire while living with autism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/author\/john-malone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JOHN MALONE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Print-Issue-21-fea_Malone-Turner-Embed-2025.jpg?w=1047\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>John Malone\u2019s dealmaking days have been intertwined with the likes of empire builders such as Ted Turner.\u00a0COURTESY OF BARCO LIBRARY<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most valuable assets in any business are people and relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I may have neglected to appreciate this at the time, when we were down in the fray. Now that I am a bit older and slowing down, just a little, I have realized that, all along, the most important element was who was involved, not what. The people whom I befriended, learned from, and fought against \u2014 rather than the deals or the payoff \u2014 gave me the most satisfaction. And the right people produced the highest upside \u2014 giving my journey meaning and enriching my knowledge of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been enormously exciting and at the same time gratifying to play a role in the digital revolution. Our original intent was to deliver broadcast TV signals to far-flung rural valleys and mountainous terrain that antennas couldn\u2019t reach. That very same cable evolved into the backbone of the broadband network better known today as the internet, three decades after we at Tele-Communications began laying down lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/john-malone-media-born-to-be-wired-book-excerpt-1236338191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter The Confessions of John Malone, Media\u2019s Most Misunderstood Mogul In this exclusive excerpt from his new memoir \u2018Born to Be Wired,\u2019 the battle-scarred billionaire candidly reflects on his (mostly) friendly rivalries with Reed Hastings, Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner and how he built a sprawling empire while living with autism. BY\u00a0JOHN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}