It’s not easy, being the daughter of a media mogul and working for your dad.
Elisabeth Murdoch left News Corp to start her own company,
Shine. Today we learn
that Shari Redstone is leaving Viacom. Who’s next? Christie
Hefner?
All three are highly-accomplished businesswomen who are equally blessed and
cursed by the shadow of their fathers. Murdoch seems to have blossomed outside
the family shop, while Hefner has done so within it. Maybe Redstone will steer
a middle course if she takes over her father’s National Amusements theater chain
and runs it as an independent entity.