The episode revolves around various members of the Roy family and its network having conversations with other billionaires and industry leaders. Namely, Logan is attempting a takeover of the Pierce family's media holdings.
At Sun Valley, multiple major acquisitions have reportedly been finalized. Those include a "deep conversation" spotted in 2014 between Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. Verizon then closed a deal to buy Yahoo for $4.5 billion.
Also in 2014, Armstrong apparently began talks with Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam that led to the $4.4 billion AOL-Verizon merger. Comcast acquired a major stake in NBC Universal after negotiations that started at the 2009 Sun Valley golf course.
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And in 2013, a few years before Bezos showed up in his vest and short-sleeved shirt, he had two 3-hour meetings with The Washington Post's Chairman Donald Graham at Sun Valley, which led to his acquisition of the newspaper brand for $250 million.
For a flashback to 1995, Disney's $19 billion deal to acquire Capital Cities/ABC happened after then-CEO Michael Eisner bumped into Warren Buffet, and asked whether Disney and ABC should "do something together." Eisner then chatted up Capital Cities/ABC Chairman Thomas Murphy, which got the ball rolling.
Perhaps some attempted deals at Sun Valley went as disastrously as the Roy merger with the Pierce properties, but the overall closed-off atmosphere of the corporate retreats means some Sun Valley secrets have stayed secret.