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David Zaslav Net Worth (2026)
David Zaslav is President & CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Most of a public-company CEO’s on-paper wealth is their stake in that company — anchored here on the number you can verify.
WHAT WE ESTIMATE
varies
Past cash compensation, sold shares, real estate, and other public holdings — estimable from records, but not exact.
WHAT CAN’T BE KNOWN
private
Private company stakes, trusts, cash, debts, and undisclosed assets. Anyone publishing these as a single number is guessing.
At a glance
| Company | Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) |
| Title | President & CEO |
| Verified stake | $188M |
| Shares owned | 6,902,993 |
| Latest total pay | $52M breakdown → |
| Age | ~66 |
HOW THIS IS CALCULATED
We take the shares David Zaslav reports owning in their most recent SEC Form 4 and multiply by the latest share price. That gives a stake value you can check against the filing itself. Everything beyond that stake — real estate, private holdings, cash, past compensation — is estimated or simply not public, and we say so rather than roll it into one number.
BIOGRAPHY
David Zaslav was born in Brooklyn in 1960 and trained as a lawyer, earning his degree with honors from Boston University before practicing in New York. He left the law for media in 1989, joining NBC, where he helped launch the cable networks CNBC and MSNBC.
He became chief executive of Discovery in 2006, took it public, and expanded it through the large acquisition of Scripps Networks. In 2022 he engineered the merger of Discovery with WarnerMedia to create Warner Bros. Discovery, taking the helm of a Hollywood giant and launching the Max streaming service.
Zaslav is a hired executive, though a highly paid one. His stake in Warner Bros. Discovery came from stock compensation, the anchor of the figure here.
Born 1960 · Binghamton University (BS); Boston University (JD)
CAREER
2022-presentPresident & CEO, Warner Bros. Discovery
2007-2022President & CEO, Discovery
1989-2006EVP, Cable, NBCUniversal
NOTABLE
- Built Discovery into a global media company and engineered its 2022 merger with WarnerMedia.
- His nine-figure pay packages have made him a recurring target of executive-pay criticism.
COMPENSATION HISTORY · from SEC proxy statements
| Fiscal year | Total pay |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $52M |
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The stake value is filing-derived and verifiable; any broader “net worth” is an estimate. Photo: US Embassy Italy, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons). Share counts are the latest reported on SEC filings and change as the executive trades; the price is the last close, so the stake value moves with the market. This is not an official or complete accounting of anyone’s wealth. Educational only — not investment advice.
