Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Why was there so much risk?

Did you ever care about money?

Was it ever a motivator?

At the end of your executive run in entertainment, you're 50-ish or so in the early 1990s.

And there's this amazing line in the book that said, you're thinking about wanting to own and control the next thing, to be independent.

And there's a line, either I am or I'm not.

Just incredibly simple.

What was that leap like?

Oh yes.

This next chapter you described as being an intranet opportunist, not visionary.

You did something like 150 deals, investments coming out of QVC.

I want to hear about like how the hell you managed to do all those deals.

But starting with QVC, what was so hard about it and the Home Shopping Network, which followed soon thereafter?

What was the getting the flywheel going?

If you want to be an AI opportunist, is the lesson from that chapter that you should do a lot of things?

You should just be a bias to action and to say yes, rather than be nitpicky about it?

In this chapter in the 90s, a whole new cast of characters enters the scene.

There was this amazing Larry Ellison interview on Charlie Rose where he quotes you talking about Bill Gates, which I found from like way, way back when.

It was around the whole Ticketmaster thing, which relates certainly to the AI copyright stuff today.

Kind of a similar episode, history repeating.