‘Succession’ on HBO is a comedy-drama series centred around Logan Roy and his offspring, who dominate the multinational media giant Waystar RoyCo. It looks at the challenging corporate environment that the Roys must negotiate to keep their business at the top of its field. GoJo plays a significant role in the plot of the fourth and final season of the show, fundamentally altering the situation for Kendall Roy, the company’s manager. Viewers must be interested in finding out more about GoJo and its services as the competition between Waystar RoyCo and GoJo intensifies in the fourth season. Then, here is all the information you need to know about GoJo in “Succession.” Spoilers follow!
What is GoJo?
In ‘Succession,’ GoJo is initially introduced in the third season, when Waystar RoyCo is under the Department of Justice’s legal scrutiny. Waystar is unable to compete with the Big Tech firms while the probe is ongoing. Because of this, Waystar RoyCo’s market cap is declining, which may have a significant impact on the company’s financial future. The company’s streaming service StarGO, however, is seen as a joke in the tech community. Roman Roy, the son of Waystar CEO Logan Roy, therefore proposes that the business purchase GoJo, a streaming platform that has grown to be one of the leading companies in the field.
In the television series, GoJo was created by Swedish tech tycoon Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgrd), who also serves as the CEO of the business. Gojo is a great asset for any conglomerate’s portfolio because it has quickly established itself as a leader in the streaming media industry. Moreover, Roman is successful in persuading Logan to purchase GoJo because Waystar’s own streaming service cannot compete with the other companies. However, little is known about the precise characteristics of GoJo as a streaming platform or the services and content that it provides its members. According to reports, GoJo also owns social media and sports betting websites. Nevertheless, it is safe to argue that the streamer is the show’s equivalent of services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu considering the excitement surrounding GoJo and its substantial market cap. GoJo, however, is a Swedish corporation, therefore it is purely a show-based concept and has no direct real-world counterpart.
Will Waystar Acquire GoJo?
In the second half of the third season, Logan Roy makes an acquisition attempt with GoJo. He meets with the CEO of the business, Lukas Matsson, to go through the possibility of buying GoJo. However, Waystar’s market cap and valuation dropped after the DOJ imposed significant fines on the company, which hindered their capacity to acquire GoJo. As a result, Matsson moves to purchase Waystar with the intention of bringing some of the firm’s extremely valuable businesses under the GoJo banner. The agreement between Logan and Matsson is impacted in the fourth season when Logan passes away while flying to Norway to meet Matsson. The future of the transaction is therefore unknown until Waystar names a new CEO.
Logan’s sons, Kendall and Roman, are appointed co-CEOs of the business with the requirement that they run operations up until the completion of the Waystar RoyCo transaction. However, Kendall chooses to back out of the arrangement and wants to keep running Waystar after a retreat in Sweden with Matsson and his crew. He then coerced Matsson into paying too much for the business in the hopes that the Swedish billionaire would back out of the intended transaction. Additionally, Kendall learns that GoJo’s stock and cash bid to buy Waystar is affected by the fact that the company’s membership count in India is significantly inflated. The board will hence almost definitely reject GoJo’s bid. Kendall therefore intends to use the recently discovered information to pressure Matsson into selling GoJo to Waystar RoyCo. Thus, Kendall reopens the door for Waystar to finally acquire GoJo as his father had intended.
