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Barry Diller

Executive Chairman of the Board & Senior Executive, Expedia Group

Search every verified Barry Diller interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of IAC, has been discussing business, technology, and the political landscape in several recent appearances. In a September 2025 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Diller said he initially adopted an open-minded approach to the Trump administration after the 2024 election, but stated he no longer remains that way. He described mass tariffs as "a fool's game" and said that business leaders who depend on the government for their activities "cannot be opposed to that government," calling it an "unfair hit" when such leaders are criticized for not speaking out. Diller also said that if Jeff Bezos were to oppose the administration while competing with Elon Musk in space, "it would be insane." In other appearances, Diller reflected on his career and the role of technology. On a podcast in April 2025, he said "success teaches you nothing" and that his primary driver is curiosity. Speaking at Expedia Group's Explore 26 conference in May 2026, Diller said he does not want to be led by "tech lords" and that the AI revolution is an "accelerant" for the travel industry. He praised Expedia's current leadership team, led by Arion, as "first rate."

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“I bought Expedia from Microsoft for a billion dollars. Microsoft said this is what it'll take. After we had signed the agreement about a month before it was going to close, so it was probably a three or four month period between signing and close, 9/11 happened. And so, we had an out clause... that obviously a material adverse change clause. And there was definitely an adverse change. And so, we went back to Microsof”

“I do not want to be led by anybody, certainly much less tech lords who are imposing their own... their essentially wanting to take over everything. And while technology is certain... it is not the human equation.”

“I think having a national wealth tax is terrible to do because there's no justification if you have a lot of resources. The evidence really is what have we done with the wealth we've created. The United States charitable foundation of the United States from wealthy people is extraordinary unlike any place else in the world.”

“Mass tariffs just on the idea of caging out huge amounts of money from other countries is a fool's game. Unless they are very sharply pinpointed at one specific misuse where in fact somebody won't deal with us in a reciprocal way, those kinds of tariffs historically I think have been sound.”

“I think that the people who are thinking about the possibilities and certainly cable, one of the if you contrast cable and their process to broadcasting and its process, broadcasting most of the people in it are one way or the other kind of holding on trying to figure it out worrying about oh my god we got to change that we got to throw those programs off and put these new programs on we got competition from here, we”

“I think that the three networks plus Fox, I mean they are mass engines of broadcast, they're real wide birds, they are going to have to though learn and adapt their infrastructure. Fox already did it because it started that way. It's got 300 employees. I mean its next biggest competitor NBC has 4,200 or something. So it can live in a world where it's organized to get 10% of the audience and be very profitable. Fox ge”

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