Barry Diller

We're certainly at the brink of the next revolution.

If you were sitting in 1995 or 2000,

at the beginning of the things you did not know, and there were plenty of those, there was nothing that cracked your mind and astounded you and said, oh, my God, this is beyond me.

This is magic.

Google, over the years, was consistently, as Monopoly grew, was squeezing the people who kind of lived on it as a surf on its land.

But when I found an asset that couldn't be disintermediated by search...

I thought, wow, that wasn't AI.

That was just the characteristics of the Internet environment.

The only thing that will save us is our brands and whether our brands and the content we make resonates enough directly for people to recognize a brand and want to be brand-involved rather than agnostic.

I believe, until the last breath, that...

It wasn't like I chose this date or that date.

It's that I had thought that my life was a good story, and if I could tell it true, then I wanted to try and do it.

So it took me an endless amount of time, basically because I put it away for a year and come back to it and put it away for six months and then come back to it.

It was only...

really in the last couple of years that I was, I wouldn't call it dedicated, but that I had more discipline.

I never was sure I would publish it.

And then I got to a point where I said, you know, I've done it.

I've kind of told it.

I got it down.

So let it go.