Barry Diller
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, I worked for large enterprises.
And like any good employee, believes and acts like it's theirs.
But that's a delusion.
It's someone else's.
And that struck me and sat with me for...
once I realized that I had this yearn for independence, I was very comfortable.
I was, as I said, you couldn't be more successful than I was at that time.
We created the Fourth Network.
You had the Simpsons.
We had a very successful movie company, et cetera, et cetera.
And I thought, well...
What am I going to do about that?
And I came up with this thing in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain, which was either you are or you're not.
And you can do what most executives do, which is you rationalize and you live a pretty good life.
So you rationalize your situation or you just say, well, this is what it is.
You don't have any yearn to be independent or on your own.