Barry Diller is the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and the Chairman and Senior Executive of Expedia, Inc. IAC is a leading media and Internet company comprising more than 150 brands and products, including Ask.com, About.com, Match.com, HomeAdvisor and Vimeo. Focused on the areas of search, applications, online dating, media and eCommerce, IAC’s family of websites is one of the largest in the world, with over a billion monthly visits across more than 100 countries. The Company is headquartered in New York City and has offices worldwide.
Quotes of Barry Diller
1.I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
2. Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
3Â Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
4. This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
5. What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
6. Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
7. You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
8. I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
9. I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
10. I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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