Steve Ross

Warner Entertainment started as parking lots

Sam tells how Steve Ross built Warner Entertainment by parlaying a paid-parking-lot business into funeral services and then into entertainment holdings, all under one company, as an example of businesses morphing completely over 50 years.

“Company? It doesn't happen nowadays that much, but there's this guy named Steve Ross, and Steve Ross started, uh, Warner, Warner Entertainment. And it— that business originally started as parking lots. It was paid, I think it was a, a paid parking lot, and then they branched out to morgues, or not morgues, where do you go like where you have like a funeral service, like a wake, right?”