Barry Diller
The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Barry Diller reads as The Disruptor because his pattern is unmistakable: arrive in an established industry and rewrite its rules before anyone else sees the game changing. He built the Fox Broadcasting Network when conventional wisdom held a fourth network impossible, then pivoted to the internet ahead of most media executives, assembling IAC as a vehicle for acquiring and transforming digital businesses. Comfortable with ambiguity and impatient with convention, Diller leads by unsettling.
“I wanted to see if I could create something that was really my own. The question for me was could I do that.”
“My biggest issue was I didn't want to work for anyone anymore. I really didn't like repeating myself — I'd been in the movie and television business for twenty years.”
“It's the best position for people to think you're crazy. That's the great good luck.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Barry Diller”
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