Mr. Davis is a very commercially successful businessman in music. Being "commercially" successful does not mean the same thing as "artistically" successful. He was/is only concerned with hits not with good music per se.
Whitney, Aretha, Carly, Dionne, Barry, Melissa, Santana, etc. made Arista much money; but how much of their work is really good artistically? Whitney was his wind-up doll; she sang what he told her to sing. She had an impressive voice and sang mediocre songs. Aretha went from brilliant work at Atlantic to homogenized bubblegum crap except for one great album, Who's Zoomin' Who?
Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?