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smarter business, IBM. Every executive and every entrepreneur will face moments of truth.

Moments when their skill is judged, when their worth is determined, when the powers that be will cast their votes and determine

if your project or company lives or dies. Barry Diller was facing one of these moments. The

media titan was in a screening room, presenting a new alternative sitcom to a group of executives.

It was not going well. But when you're watching something with a group of executives, it was not going well.

But when you're watching something with a group of people and you're involved in it and they're

seeing it for the first time, you laugh a lot. I mean, partly out of pride and partly

because you're almost like daring everybody else not to laugh.

Apart from Barry and the creator of the show, nobody was laughing.

The only two people laughing in a room of like 10 people.

The tension in the room was palpable.

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