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Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year
Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year-August 2024
Aug 25, 2025 1:49 AM

Summer shined on the Sun Valley Lodge for the Allen Companys annual gathering of media, finance and tech titans this week.

But the storm clouds brewing over an entertainment industry facing unprecedented disruption from AI and other tech innovations means possible MA deals are certain to be raised in Idaho among power brokers at the annual Sun Valley Conference during the usual hiking, golf and rafting on their schedules.

The invite-only Allen event, nicknamed summer camp for billionaires, had Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, Disney CEO Bob Iger and Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav captured by photographers as they arrived at the Sun Valley lodge for the annual gathering. Iger recently turned thumbs down to following Warner Bros. Discovery and Comcast in splitting off some legacy TV assets from future-facing streaming platforms. But Sun Valley watchers will be looking to see how Iger gets to grips with extracting most out of Disney+ profit-wise as that platform chases streaming market leader Netflix.

Other Sun Valley arrivals included Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is taking heat from the Trump administration for not doing enough to shift iPhone production out of China, only to set up manufacturing in India, and CBS TV host Gayle King.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts also arrived in Idaho after the NBCUniversal owner spun off a host of cable channels into a separate company, Versant. That aims to give NBCU more flexibility to pursue MA activity, including potentially under the Idaho sun this week.

And former CEO of Disney Michael Eisner, and chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia Group Barry Diller, hot on the heels of the media mogul publishing his memoir, have also checked in at Sun Valley.

Other industry heavyweights in Idaho include former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, chairman of Sirius XM Holdings Greg Maffei, a close collaborator with media veteran John Malone, and Wasserman Media Group CEO Casey Wasserman, the Los Angeles entertainment and sports management mogul.

Also seen arriving at the Sun Valley Lodge was OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who just bought former Apple designer Jony Ives startup io for $6.5 billionand may well be looking for other media and tech talent to support his expanding AI empire. Heres more from the arrivals scene:

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Disney chief Bob Iger arrives at the Sun Valley lodge.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman checked in this year.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan arrives at the Sun Valley lodge.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is back.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Producer Brian Grazer made his way to Idaho.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Future SpinCo CEO Gunnar Wiedenfels, currently at Warners, also arrived at Sun Valley.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg walk to a morning session.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Casey Wasserman has collected his SV25 badge.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Google CEO Sundar Pichai walks to lunch at the Allen Company Sun Valley Conference.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts arrives at the Sun Valley lodge.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Josh DAmaro arrives at the Sun Valley lodge.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Apple CEO Tim Cook is back as well.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is at Sun Valley this year.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy leaves the Sun Valley Lodge at the Allen Company Sun Valley Conference.

Who’s at Sun Valley’s Moguls Retreat This Year1

Former CEO of Disney Michael Eisner arrives at the Sun Valley lodge.

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