Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLERPut one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLERI absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
BARRY DILLERI like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLERHollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLERIf you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
BARRY DILLERI’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLERPeople have paid for content. They always have.
BARRY DILLERYou really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
BARRY DILLERWe need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLERThe world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
BARRY DILLERNow along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
BARRY DILLERI don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLERMy opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
BARRY DILLERThis is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
BARRY DILLERTicketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLERWell, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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