Barry Diller
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where I've said to him, I don't think your programming, I don't think it's being optimally programmed.
I don't think it's competitive.
Now, by the way, the facts support that, meaning that its ratings have declined, its revenue has declined.
It's still quite profitable, but how would you alter it?
Oh, in every way.
Look, feel, and see.
Every way.
And I mean, I hope I get the chance.
I don't think I will, but I hope I do.
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.
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.