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Barry Diller

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The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

Somebody said something

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

someone else said well that's stupid and the person said that's what I want stupid the more I hear stupid the more I will hear ideas and so if you're in a process with other people and any idea is

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

Any idea, dumb, stupid, wrong, any one of those words you want to attach to it is a step to the next idea, which isn't.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

That was 30 years later.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I was 49.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I'd been a very good corporatist.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I had run two movie companies.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

and incredibly successful in the world that I was in.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And yet I yearned for something that was my own.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And it wasn't mine.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I mean, I worked for large enterprises.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And like any good employee, believes and acts like it's theirs.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

But that's a delusion.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

It isn't theirs.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

It's someone else's.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

And that struck me and sat with me for...

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

once I realized that I had this yearn for independence, I was very comfortable.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

I was, as I said, you couldn't be more successful than I was at that time.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

We created the Fourth Network.

The Knowledge Project
Barry Diller: Building IAC

You had the Simpsons.