Jason Kilar was the CEO of WarnerMedia from May 2020 to April 2022.
11 Facts About Jason Kilar
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Jason Kilar was previously an Amazon executive, the founding CEO of the short-lived Vessel, and the CEO of Hulu.
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Jason Kilar's family moved to Boca Raton, Florida, during his junior year and ended up graduating from Spanish River Community High School in 1989.
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Jason Kilar attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity.
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Jason Kilar graduated in 1993 and continued his education at Harvard Business School, earning an MBA in 1997.
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Jason Kilar served as an executive for Amazon from 1997 to 2006, including as the senior vice president of its worldwide application software division.
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Jason Kilar helped found the streaming company Hulu in 2007 and became its chief executive officer.
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The next month, Jason Kilar joined the board of directors for DreamWorks Animation.
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In March 2021, Jason Kilar drew more ire by claiming that COVID-19 is "really good for ratings" in conversation with Fox Corporation's Lachlan Murdoch.
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Jason Kilar later apologized for making this comment and added that "I would like nothing more than for this pandemic to be well behind us".
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Jason Kilar announced on April 5,2022, that he would be stepping down as the WarnerMedia CEO in face of the soon-to-be-completed merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc.