Barry Diller

it would be fine.

And we picked, I think, the best entity to do it.

All the entities suffered the same situation.

But that's what intrigued me.

And its infrastructure, the fact that it had 480 restaurants in one place, 125 performance venues,

9 million, I think it's 9 million feet of convention.

I mean, it just was, once we learned about it, it was so vast and deep.

I said, how do you, you know, how do you not do this?

Well, to a degree, for sure.

The Internet world, I think that everybody participated in up until still true to some degree today.

was so dominated by Google.

Google, absolute monopoly on search and all your traffic.

I mean, at least half your traffic, if you were healthy, would come from people coming directly to you.

But the other half, without which you wouldn't be able to survive.

came from Google and Google over the years was consistently as a monopoly group was squeezing the people who kind of lived on as a surf on its land.

Yeah.

And, uh, so I was always, I mean, we were fighting that good fight for 20 plus years and succeeding and building some considerable assets.

But when I found an asset that couldn't be disintermediated by search, I thought, wow, that wasn't AI.

I'm not really very good on my very own staring at a wall or at a screen or at something.

I need the convulsive arguing of ideas of people who have passion