Barry Diller

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

• Induction

  Television Hall of Fame (1994)

• Birth Date

  1942-02-02

• Occupation

  Entrepreneur and Business Executive

• Birth Place

  San Francisco, California, United States

• Citizenship

  United States

• Authored Work

  Who Knew (Book)

• Net Worth Status

  Billionaire

Timeline

• Born in San Francisco, California to Michael Diller and Reva Addison. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1942-02-02

• Appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of Paramount Pictures Corporation. (Source: IAC Leadership Profile)

  1974-01-01

• Became President of Gulf + Western's newly formed Entertainment and Communications Group. (Source: IAC Leadership Profile)

  1983-03-01

• Began tenure as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox, Inc. (Source: IAC Leadership Profile)

  1984-10-01

• Began serving as chief executive for QVC. (Source: IAC Leadership Profile)

  1992-12-01

• Inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1994-01-01

• Assumed the role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC. (Source: IAC Leadership Profile)

  1995-01-01

• Purchased Universal Studios from Seagram for over $4 billion. (Source: Fortune)

  1998-01-01

• Acquired Hotel Reservations Network (later Hotels.com) for $245 million. (Source: Fortune)

  1999-01-01

• Sold Universal to Vivendi for $11.7 billion. (Source: Fortune)

  2002-01-01

• Stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of IAC while remaining Chairman. (Source: IAC Leadership Profile)

  2010-12-01

• Publicly called for U.S. President Joe Biden to end his bid for re-election. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2024-07-01

Barry Diller

Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company with Rupert Murdoch and USA Broadcasting. Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994.

Web Search Results

• Barry Diller - Wikipedia

  Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. He is chairman and senior executive of IAC "IAC (company)") and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company with Rupert Murdoch and USA Broadcasting. Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994. ## Early life [edit] Diller was born on February 2, 1942, in San Francisco, California, to Michael Diller and his wife Reva (née Addison). He was raised in Beverly Hills. In May 2012, New York magazine "New York (magazine)") described Diller as a "second generation Austrian Jewish kid". ## Career [edit] [...] During the 2020 Democratic primary, Diller expressed reservations over Elizabeth Warren, but stated he would support her over Trump if she was nominated. In 2024, Diller was among those who called for U.S. President Joe Biden to end his bid for re-election after his poor debate performance and other disconcerting signs on the campaign trail. Diller along with fellow billionaire Reid Hoffman said that Kamala Harris should replace FTC chair Lina Khan in a potential Harris administration. [...] Diller retained the assets of the Home Shopping Network and the subsequent Internet assets he acquired later to bolster the HSN Online stable that later became IAC/InterActiveCorp.

• What makes Barry Diller.com tick - Fortune

  Then came the travel business. In a 1999 deal Diller paid $245 million for a tiny Texas-based company called Hotel Reservations Network that sold blocks of hotel rooms at steeply discounted rates over the Internet. (In 2000, Diller sold a stake to the public and later on renamed the business Hotels.com; in 2003, IAC reacquired the shares for $1.2 billion.) Diller also bought a $1.5 billion stake in Expedia, which had been spun out from Microsoft a few years earlier. Erik Blachford, an Expedia executive who would later become its CEO, recalls Diller’s saying, “You guys think this is the future of travel. I think it’s the future of everything.” [...] Back to HSN, which Diller first envisioned as the foundation for a new network he would build, a la Fox. But it didn’t work out that way. On the one hand, Diller continued to do media deals, purchasing Universal Studios from Edgar Bronfman’s Seagram for just over $4 billion in 1998. Diller paid $1.6 billion in cash, gave Bronfman a 46% stake in his company, and changed its name to USA Networks. Four years later Diller sold Universal to Vivendi for $11.7 billion–although only $1.6 billion of that was cash; the rest consisted of the return of USA stock Vivendi owned and various other convoluted securities in a new entity called Vivendi Universal Entertainment. (The ultimate value of those securities is the subject of a lawsuit between Vivendi and IAC.) Diller also sold all of USA’s TV [...] With all the bewildering wheeling and dealing, Diller achieved four undeniable results. First, he created a cash-rich company with a healthy $3.3 billion on its balance sheet (not including the value of the Vivendi securities). Part of that came from Diller’s dealmaking, but he has also owned businesses that have produced lots of cash. Second, Diller did quite well for those shareholders who stuck with him. IAC dates its founding to Dec. 16, 1996; from that starting point, IAC’s stock has returned around 600%, or more than triple the S&P 500’s return. Diller views this as the answer to just about any form of criticism. “It’s amazing that anyone would look at our company any other way than its only reality,” he says. He has done particularly well for Malone, who is entitled to keep his IAC

• Barry Diller - IAC

  Before joining Fox, Mr. Diller served for 10 years as the Chairman and Chief Executive of Paramount Pictures Corporation. In March 1983, in addition to Paramount, he became President of the conglomerate's newly formed Entertainment and Communications Group, which included Simon & Schuster, Inc., Madison Square Garden Corporation and SEGA Enterprises, Inc. Prior to joining Paramount, Mr. Diller served as Vice President of Prime Time Television for ABC Entertainment. He has also served as Producer on numerous Broadway shows, including The Music Man, The Lehman Trilogy, West Side Story, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Humans. Through his foundation, Mr. Diller created Little Island, a park and performance center in the Hudson River and has supported various organizations including The High [...] and has supported various organizations including The High Line, Motion Picture & Television Fund, UCLA Foundation and Culture Shed. He is a signatory of The Giving Pledge. [...] IAC IAC image description # Barry Diller Chairman and Senior Executive Barry Diller is the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and the Chairman and Senior Executive of Expedia Group. From 1995 to late 2010, Mr. Diller served as the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer of IAC. Since December 1992, beginning with QVC, he has served as chief executive for a number of predecessor companies engaged in media and interactivity prior to the formation of IAC. From October 1984 to April 1992, Mr. Diller served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox, Inc. and was responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company in addition to Fox's motion picture operations.

• How Barry Diller Stayed on Top | The New Yorker

  Television and the movies, as Diller records, had sharply different valences. Three-network TV remained a New York-based, “Mad Men”-style business, buttoned-up on the outside and dissolute within: Martinis, mistresses, and Westchester mansions. The movies, by contrast, were still being made in Hollywood by marauders and lunatics. Though an older generation of moguls was fading—Diller glimpses a once all-powerful Warner brother emerging from a bathroom with a stain on his pants—the new generation was even crazier. Diller recalls the Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis mounting a remake of “King Kong” without securing the rights, or mastering the language. “Many of his movies suffer from a basic misunderstanding of the rhythm, the tonality, the nuance of English,” Diller writes, shrewdly. [...] The first half of Diller’s story unfolds against what now feels like an impossibly distant era: a fixed, tycoon-driven entertainment business, which he evokes in engaging detail. He actually began in the William Morris mailroom, though he explains that, really, you rarely handled mail and mostly handled the egos of the senior agents. He hustled his way into that programming job at ABC, where he caught the attention of Charles Bluhdorn, the Austrian-born conglomerateur who ran Gulf + Western, Paramount’s parent company. In 1974, Bluhdorn lured Diller away and made him Paramount’s head—though the move had its complications. Bluhdorn loathed the studio’s incumbent president, Frank Yablans, but had locked himself into a contract that couldn’t be cheaply broken. He dropped Diller right on top [...] him—chief among them an abusive older brother who became a heroin addict in his teens and remained one. Diller came away, in his own view, eager to please but socially isolated, an outsider, even a bit of an outcast. (Nora Ephron, a fellow-student, fired him from the school newspaper at Beverly Hills High.) Yet, when he does become a success, the mega-mogul Lew Wasserman joshingly reminds Diller that a young Barry once beat Wasserman’s wife in gin rummy. One feels sure that the temper of the adults’ gin table was not, as Diller thought, “Poor Barry!,” but, in fact, “Watch out for that kid!”

• From Hollywood to High Tech: Barry Diller's Remarkable Path

  Barry Diller: Oh, thank you. Guy Kawasaki: And bear it. After I finished the book, I said “Is there anybody who's a mensch in your life other than Danny Thomas? Because it sure looks like there was Danny Thomas and the rest of the industry is a bunch of gonifs.” Barry Diller: I have only worked for really very few people. All of them could be described as mensches. All, well, maybe one exception. Guy Kawasaki: I mean you, are you trying to tell me that Martin and Marvin Davis are mensches? [...] Skip to content Guy Kawasaki Logo Previous Next View Larger Image # From Hollywood to High Tech: Barry Diller’s Remarkable Path Welcome to Remarkable People. We’re on a mission to make you remarkable. Helping me in this episode is Barry Diller. Barry is no ordinary executive; he’s a force who’s reshaped industries from the silver screen to the search bar. As the former chairman of Paramount Pictures and Fox, and now the leader of IAC and Expedia, his influence has touched millions of lives—often without them realizing it. [...] Barry Diller: It is a little overwrought, but it's okay. I can live with it. Guy Kawasaki: And he's the author of this book. This book is called Who Knew. We'll get into that. I love the title, Barry. That was a very clever title. Barry Diller: Thank you. Guy Kawasaki: So Barry, I wanna start, believe it or not, with Danny Thomas. And as I read your book, it seems to me that Danny Thomas got you that first job at William Morris, and then at William Morris you were in the basement or someplace and reading all the deals, and that gave you a foundation for your career. Is that an accurate retelling of that story?

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  University of California, Los Angeles

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  entrepreneur

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  2/2/1942

• Place Of Birth

  San Francisco