Recode Decode: IAC chairman Barry Diller

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC and the Expedia Group, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the state of the tech and media industries, problematic people in power and why Diller is building a new public park in New York. In this episode: What does he do as chairman of those companies?; the future of dating apps; how Diller evaluates the travel industry and Airbnb; how did Diller anticipate how the internet would change media?; why Netflix is beating Amazon and will beat all other competitors; "Hollywood is now irrelevant"; techlash and criticizing Mark Zuckerberg; how Facebook and Google should be regulated; Amazon's power and Jeff Bezos' battle with the National Enquirer; how he has run the Washington Post; Rupert Murdoch and Marc Benioff; Diller is writing a book; President Trump is "thoroughly rotten" and "an accident of history"; Mike Bloomberg, Howard Schultz and billionaire backlash; saving the High Line in New York City; public spaces and civic responsibility; "we're building an island off the Hudson River." Click here to vote for Kara Swisher in the Shorty Awards! You can vote once per day between now and Thursday, February 21. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:53.0	You may know me as someone who wants Barry Diller to run for president, because why not?
0:57.0	But in my spare time, I talk tech, and you're listening to Recode decode from the Box Media Podcast Network.
1:02.0	Today in the red chair of someone I know very well, Barry Diller, who I've known, I don't know, for a million years, beginning of the internet time.
1:08.0	He's the chairman of Prehistoric.
1:12.0	Of IAC, the former CEO of several TV and movie studios, he's been the chairman of the Expedia Group since 2006.
1:17.0	He does everything he's a man about town. He's also a big civic booster of New York, which we're going to talk about a little bit, because he's doing a really cool thing, another cool thing in New York.
1:26.0	And he is one of my favorite people to talk to. He's witty and funny, and he has lots of opinions.
1:30.0	Try me.
1:31.0	Okay, Barry, welcome to Recode decode.
1:33.0	Thank you so much.
1:35.0	So we've talked recently at your IAC event, and we had a really good talk about where that is going.
1:40.0	Why don't you fill us in on what the stuff you're doing?
1:42.0	And I do want to talk about the stuff in New York separately, but talk about where you are as chairman of IAC.
1:48.0	We were where I am.
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