Paramount’s Tech Strategy: Recruit Google for Slow-Motion Streaming Revolution
KEY POINTS
- •Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison hired Nick Lee and Suzanne Pellican, both former Google executives, as EVPs earlier this week.
- •Nick Lee will lead media systems from Seattle while Suzanne Pellican heads design efforts from the Bay Area, focusing on unifying user experience.
- •The hires form part of Paramount’s strategy to boost tech capabilities amid their stalled $110 billion Warner Bros Discovery merger.
Paramount Skydance, helmed by David Ellison, has decided that hiring Google alumni is their golden ticket to becoming a tech behemoth, or at least look busy trying. They've scooped up Nick Lee, ex-Microsoft AI and nearly two decades at Google, as EVP of media systems based in Seattle, and Suzanne Pellican, once Google’s VP of ads UX with a past life at Intuit, who now runs design from the Bay Area. Meanwhile, product chief Dane Glasgow — yes, also a Googler — boasted these hires will "build on our world-class product and tech team," which apparently means more Googlers. They’ve been calling staff back to LA and New York but keep some remote—because nothing says ‘modern streaming’ like forced nostalgia for cubicles. Oh, and this is all wrapped around Ellison’s stalled $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery bid. Paramount also secretly hired Hugh Williams, dubbed 'the godfather of doomscrolling,' and Barak Turovsky, head of Google’s AI language product, as if streaming wasn’t stressful enough. It’s less Hollywood remake, more tech remake: Google Workers Strike Back.
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(1 of 3)Paramount's master plan to save streaming: abduct Google execs, station them across the country, insist on in-office misery while trying to $110 billion their way into a merger that’s on sweet antitrust pause. Tech dreams now require 17-year Googlers and doomscrolling gurus.
Paramount clearly believes media problems are solved by Googling more Googlers, peppered with a dash of doomscrolling expertise. Streaming mistakes, now with AI polish.
Imagine selling an $110 billion merger while importing Googlers faster than Netflix ships DVDs. The streaming wars are now tech recruitment wars.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/18/2026 | Author: James Faris
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