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Barry Diller
American
Businessman
Born:
Feb 2
,
1942
Business
Internet
People
Will
World
You
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
Air
Broadcast
Signal
Ability
Consumers
Over
Right
Receive
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
Barry Diller
Music
Future
Business
Will
Important
Believe
Music Industry
Way
Distribution
Direction
Pointed
Exciting
New
New Business
Industry
New Direction
Napster
Models
Form
Basis
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
Barry Diller
Reality
World
Made
Too
Because
Up
Which
Painful
Reasons
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
Barry Diller
World
Will
Strategy
Changing
Run
Carry
Networks
Highly
Envision
Without
Overhead
Tightly
Established
Room
Companies
Specific
Services
There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
Barry Diller
You
Predict
Way
Months
Rate
Most
Years
Going
Six
Happen
Certainly
Businesses
Growing
Grown
Two
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
Barry Diller
Entertainment
Business
Entertainment Business
Had
Idea
New
New Idea
Years
Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
Barry Diller
Time
You
Business
Management
Long
Long Time
Out
GE
Structure
Bound
Over
Like
Been
Decades
Century
Gamble
Figure
Companies
Works
I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
Barry Diller
Pure
Own
Else
Unless
Complexity
Clarity
Superficiality
Never
Know
Makes
Answers
Line
Shining
Essentially
Anybody
Anybody Else
Story
Product
Internal
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
Barry Diller
Me
Invention
Own
Our
Finding
Investing
Simply
Support
Ideas
Interests
Businesses
Starting
People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
Barry Diller
Me
People
About
Emotional
Emotional Thing
iPad
Truly
Included
Thing
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.
Barry Diller
You
World
Internet
Extraordinary
Press
Miracle
Absolutely
Idea
Well
Send
Publishing
Button
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
Barry Diller
Life
Service
My Life
What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
Barry Diller
Service
Lost
Broadcasting
More
More Or Less
Clear
Been
Very
Happened
Public
Really
Used
Less
Public Service
Now
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
Barry Diller
You
People
World
Internet
Young
System
Distribution
Put
Opinion
Go
Up
Young People
Now
Right
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
Barry Diller
ABC
Only
Since
Always
Were
Done
Being
Being Done
Interested
Twenties
Things
Early
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
Barry Diller
Creative
Destruction
Internet
Distribution
Brought
Potential
Along
Methodology
Different
Now
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
Barry Diller
Man
Natural
Law
Gone
Everybody
Mark
Television
Independent
Out
Has-Been
Nobody
Most
Couple
Period
How
Were
Been
Years
Years Ago
Decades
Burnett
Happened
Worked
Producers
Works
Twenty
Now
Prescribed
Dozens
Things
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
Barry Diller
Natural
Law
Believe
Synergy
Call
Still
Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it's perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content.
Barry Diller
Nice
Ability
Perfect
Contains
Course
Content
Because
Reviews
Little
Use
Application
The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
Barry Diller
Service
Time
Money
Important
Nothing
Magic
Entities
Online
Nobody
Over
Make
Because
Still
Going
Move
Bankrupt
Us
Really
Businesses
Why
Largest
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
Barry Diller
You
Business
Invention
Way
Though
Some
Only
New
Advertising
Content
Got
Revenue
Model
Subscription
Either
Business Model
Paid
Now
Right
I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
Barry Diller
Great
Opportunity
Somebody
Great Opportunity
Said
Always
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
Barry Diller
You
Internet
Will
Free
Believe
System
Promise
Absolutely
Days
Inevitably
Passing
Paid
People have paid for content. They always have.
Barry Diller
People
Content
Always
Paid
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
Barry Diller
You
Try
Internet
Headache
Advertising
Understand
Get
Want
Really
I never thought I was a very good manager.
Barry Diller
Good
Thought
Good Manager
Never
Very
Manager
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