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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 13:25 David Rosenthal He had been the number two executive at Paramount under Barry Diller and had architected one of the most legendary runs in Hollywood history.
- ▶ 13:35 David Rosenthal The two of them, Barry Diller and Michael, within a span of seven years, they made Indiana Jones,
- ▶ 15:12 Ben Gilbert And there was another memo leaked later by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who, you know, speaking of the lieutenants, you got Barry Diller's lieutenant is Michael Eisner, Michael Eisner's lieutenant is Jeffrey Katzenberg.
- ▶ 16:56 Ben Gilbert Uh, Barry leaves, as we talked to Barry about on stage at Radio City Music Hall.
- ▶ 17:10 Ben Gilbert So Barry leaves.
- ▶ 17:13 Ben Gilbert The job that Barry had as chairman of the movie studio over at Paramount, and he doesn't get that job, largely because of internal politics and who's making how much money, those sort of games.
- ▶ 17:25 Ben Gilbert And Michael basically, his contract says that he's owed a check if he does not get the job when Barry leaves.
- ▶ 17:34 Ben Gilbert I don't really want to stay here without Barry anyway.
- ▶ 1:03:17 David Rosenthal So Barry Diller and Michael, they were TV guys at ABC before they went to Paramount.
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:47:39 Ben Gilbert And Meredith Kopitlevian, New York Times CEO, and Barry Diller.
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 3:17 Ben Gilbert The Radio City Show also had a second act, a late-night talk show, where we had conversations with the CEO of the New York Times, Meredith Cobit-Levian, and the chairman of IAC, Barry Diller, plus some cameos from around the acquired…
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 2:23 Ben Gilbert So this is a candid conversation that dives into moments like buying Expedia right when night 11 happened, how he first met Barry Diller at Allen & Company, and what the financial mechanics are actually like of replacing Uber's entire…
- ▶ 4:04 Ben Gilbert And when you became the CEO, your previous role was you were at IAC with Barry Diller, and you guys had bought a controlling interest
- ▶ 5:33 Dara Khosrowshahi And Rich called, I think, Barry at the time.
- ▶ 6:31 Dara Khosrowshahi So we got together as a team, the IAC team, and all of us were kind of talking, and you know, there's no clear decision to be made there, but Barry respected what Rich asked for, and I remember the meeting, we were like, having all these…
- ▶ 6:51 Dara Khosrowshahi He said, you know, if there isn't travel, there isn't life.
- ▶ 7:00 Dara Khosrowshahi And right after that meeting, Barry called Rich and said, game on.
- ▶ 7:10 Dara Khosrowshahi But Barry, his passion is travel, right?
- ▶ 7:12 Dara Khosrowshahi And I think he was right, which is just when you're in the center of the storm, it looks like,
- ▶ 8:52 Ben Gilbert So how did you meet Barry Diller?
- ▶ 8:54 Dara Khosrowshahi So I met Barry Diller when I was an analyst at Allen & Company, which was my first job out of college.
- ▶ 9:11 Dara Khosrowshahi And I got assigned to this deal where Barry Diller, who at the time was running QVC.
- ▶ 9:35 Dara Khosrowshahi And at some point, John Malone, I think had control of QVC and Barry got the job to run QVC and have control because he wanted to be his own boss.
- ▶ 9:57 Dara Khosrowshahi Sumner Redstone, who was running Viacom, had come to an agreement to buy Paramount Pictures, which was Barry's old home, and Barry thought that he was getting a steal, so he decided to go after Paramount in a hostile tender offer, to come…
- ▶ 10:37 Dara Khosrowshahi You know, Barry would bid, and then Redstone would bid up, et cetera.
- ▶ 10:42 Dara Khosrowshahi There was a, a big court case that was pretty important in terms of, did Barry have the right to come in and actually bid on this thing and break apart a negotiated deal?
- ▶ 11:03 Dara Khosrowshahi And so I had to kind of step up and work with Barry directly, like making these pictures to Barry.
- ▶ 11:11 Dara Khosrowshahi I was like two, three years out of college, and at some point Barry's like, you know, there are all these complicated numbers that you put together, and Barry wanted to know, like, who is the person running these numbers?
- ▶ 11:27 Dara Khosrowshahi Herbert Allen comes and he's like, print out your model, Barry wants to talk.
- ▶ 11:49 Dara Khosrowshahi But, like, in hindsight, I've seen this patterning with Barry, which is he wants to get the real stuff.
- ▶ 12:19 Dara Khosrowshahi So for me, it was like, you know, crazy luck, but it was also, it's part of Barry's process, which is get the unvarnished truth, because that helps him make better decisions.
- ▶ 13:14 Dara Khosrowshahi And Barry's the same, which is like, he'll throw a young person off the deep end, and you'll either sink or you swim.
- ▶ 14:59 Ben Gilbert There are a lot of other people that could have lucked their way into an Allen & Company job and then not turned it into an incredible performance with one of the most important people where your model needs to hold weight, which is Barry…
- ▶ 39:43 Dara Khosrowshahi Yeah, I love working for Barry.
- ▶ 41:40 Dara Khosrowshahi So actually at that point, I called up Barry because I couldn't put Barry in a situation or myself in a situation.
- ▶ 42:11 Dara Khosrowshahi I said, Barry, head on and call me about Uber.
- ▶ 42:28 David Rosenthal You weren't going to get fired because what was Barry going to do?
- ▶ 44:41 Dara Khosrowshahi I talked to Barry about it, and it's ultimately up to him.
- ▶ 45:12 Dara Khosrowshahi and so that, it was, I think on a net net, I trust that Barry's judgment, it does feel weird sometimes, because I've moved on, but it's working.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:26:55 Peter Fenton And, you know, Barry Diller said, what do you want?
- ▶ 1:27:12 David Rosenthal Negotiating with Barry Diller.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 24:50 Brad Gerstner And then we ran into Dara Khashr-Shahi, who was running M&A for Barry Diller at the time, and he said, you know, I want to buy the business.
- ▶ 25:11 Brad Gerstner And so he goes, well, let me talk to Barry.
- ▶ 25:20 Brad Gerstner And he goes, well, I think Barry wants to buy them too.
- ▶ 25:43 Brad Gerstner Uh, I remember being in the back of a limousine in Hollywood on my way to Barry Diller's house with Rich Barton, and we looked at each other and we're like, strange world, how'd we end up here?
- ▶ 25:54 David Rosenthal This was the beginning of Barry transforming from a media guy into a media and technology guy and building IAC.
- ▶ 26:09 Brad Gerstner First, Barry was early to understand transactional commerce through a screen.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 36:08 David Rosenthal IAC guy, Interactive Corp, working for Barry Diller.
- ▶ 36:36 David Rosenthal Barry Diller and media and tech and, and, uh, him being really the first person to integrate all that.