John Malone , outgoing chairman of Liberty Media , major shareholder and former director of Warner Bros. Discovery , and longtime mentor to WBD CEO David Zaslav , compared the company’s and its potential buyers to the parable of The Blind Men and the Elephant.

“We have three or four aggressive bidders. They each are seeing a different elephant because of where they come from and why this asset would be important to them in their future and the future of their companies,” he told CNBC today. “ Larry Ellison sees this as a global technology platform play that could really use AI to dramatically change the whole ballgame in social networking and streaming. The Netflix guys just see it as a great way to have the best library and the best production studio in movies and television …

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