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KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Contradicted
Diller asserts 80% to 90% of employees immediately cash out vested options
“What I have learned is that most people, you think that giving large populations options in the company's securities, that they would hold on to them. And what you find out is 80, 90%. The first moment that they, quote, vest, they cashed them.”
Barry Diller Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 50:43 Barry Diller: Building IAC
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Diller: No technology or AI will disintermediate physical MGM Las Vegas resorts
“No one's going to get between Going to an MGM resort, particularly Las Vegas, in which we have a huge share of Las Vegas. We have 11 properties in Las Vegas. No tech is getting between that and a human.”
Barry Diller Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 42:48 How Barry Diller Built Entertainment Empires · Invest Like The Best
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Diller: Publishers relying on Google search traffic face near extinction
“I mean, it really is, and if you depend on your life traffic from Google, from search, you're gonna be close to extinct, if that's what you do.”
Barry Diller Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 55:59 How Barry Diller Built Entertainment Empires · Invest Like The Best
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Diller predicts fully agentic AI doing work for users within a year
“It is more than likely that within a year, but I don't say that, I mean, I think it really is probably truly within a year or so, you really will be able to have a conversation, agentic, this new word, where An agent does work for you. We'll know so much about…”
Barry Diller Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 30:17 Barry Diller: Building IAC
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Partly supported
Diller: 'Home Alone' box office cash kept Fox from collapsing
“It was the cash basically from Home Alone that kept the company from going dark before he could refinance his loan package, which took place about a year later.”
Barry Diller Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 28:10 How Barry Diller Built Entertainment Empires · Invest Like The Best
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