Barry Diller
Barry Diller
Barry Charles Dilleris an American businessman, who currently serves as the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc. and the media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. Diller is a member of the Television Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1994...
issues economic-models solve
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
want be-you
I'm never absolutely sure of anything, and I don't want to be. You're either right and you'll pull through, or you're not. We're never going to be right about everything, and we've certainly been wrong.
drug kind epiphany
If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.
form commerce
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
ideas miracle world
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
law steps needs
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
artist tickets doe
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
succeed way products
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
ideas years entertainment
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
done twenties being-done
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
people paid
People have paid for content. They always have.
creative different internet
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
running games yesterday
It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.
feet dumb progression
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.