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...
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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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.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
people paid
People have paid for content. They always have.
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We are all prepared to meet with the special committee and its legal and financial advisors at your earliest convenience,
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While we fully expect continued strength in our operations going forward, course correcting adaptations are vital to the execution of a focused agenda,
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We're ready to compete. We're very serious about this. Search evolves. We have a product that I think is part of that.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.