Barry Diller

Yes, I did fall in love with this girl, and we still talk.

In 2001, she would remarry, this time to media mogul Barry Diller, another high-profile, headline-making romance.

Especially last year, after Diller... at 83 years old, revealed in a memoir he was attracted to men.

He said, yes, I also liked guys, but that was not a conflict with my love for Diane.

Baker was editing the thing.

Barry Diller literally saw John perform.

If you ever saw John Mulroney perform, he would work the crowd and just wreck the place.

And John Mulrooney.

Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch was there.

Barry Diller was there.

It was, it was, it was one of the most amazing parties and it was like a cultural moment in New York city.

And it, So this company soared, Anne.

I mean, it's hard to believe now, but I think, you know, going back to Bob Evans of Paramount or, you know, they didn't expect every movie to be mega hit or even be profitable.

You know, like I really liked reading Barry Diller's book because he kind of, you know, went through that, that even the top guys, and they were all guys, even the top guys, if they really love something, they wanted to make it, even though they kind of knew it was not going to be a big hit.

It's hard to imagine that now.

Right.

But like, for me, it's been great.

Here, there's another nuance to that where, you know, I was talking to one of the Vimeo guys on, on my podcast, and it was like, you know, he, he's like, "Look, like I had the perfect business," and he's like, "We, we sold our first thing when we were 22." Like Barry Diller and IAC were, were able to buy Vimeo, along with three other businesses for like 50 million bucks.

They basically got Vimeo for free.

So he stuck around.

Mm.

Mm.Paramount loses the bidding war for the movie based on Annie, and Robert Evans gets so hot about it that he literally calls a meeting with the higher-ups at Paramount, and he's like, "Well, what other comic strips do we have the rights to? 'Cause I'll make anything." And these, this is like Michael Eisner, by the way, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Barry Diller are like all the higher-ups here.

And, uh, and so they figure out that they have Popeye because they've distributed the cartoons theatrically, so they have the rights to Popeye.

And so he's like, "All right.

And that was I joke around that when I and you will talk about it.

But when I ended up going to work for Barry Diller and taking over IAC Retail, which Home Shopping Network was the biggest part of it.

I had no TV experience.

I had no experience in most of the categories of business we were in.

And that's when I made the pivot and went to work for Tommy Hilfiger, who also was still a friend to this day.

You know, you've worked for some iconic visionaries.

Most of them men, except until we get to Oprah, right? Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Barry Diller, right? You end up then going to Nike.

You have a long stretch at Nike.

So he brought them over and then he brought in a lot of young talent like Joe Buck.

So it was Barry Diller involved in that.

No, no, not that I know of.

So, yeah.