The Billion Dollar Question is – WHY? If I were to talk directly to Jeff Zucker’s current boss (Jeffrey Immelt) and future boss (Brian Roberts), I would quote my new hero, Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer, and say “Are you stoopid?” Even if we all…
From where I sit at my breakfast nook in La Canada, California, 3,000 miles from IAC’s headquarters in New York, Barry Diller seems to be getting tired of it all. Yesterday, when I listened to IAC’s earnings call, I got the sense that Mr. Diller…
Ben Silverman is making this way too easy. IAC has released the logo for Ben Silverman’s world-changing, earth-shattering, ground-breaking new venture – Electus. In my opinion, it is the perfect logo for the company. Everything you need to know about Electus and its future success…
OK. So Conan is gone. Jay is back at 11:35. What’s next? Damage control. Over the next few weeks, we can expect to see NBC Universal’s ‘A Team’ of publicists begin the seemingly impossible task of resuscitating the images of Jay Leno, The Tonight Show…
Yes, this deal is as DumbDumb as you can get. How to build a successful startup: Step #1 – Use Barry Diller’s money to fund a vanity production label with a friend from high school. Yes, Jason Bateman and Will Arnett (in particular) are talented…
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message The Jay…
The revolution is over… and what a crappy revolution it was. Notional – the only company to ever come up with the idea for a dating show in a taxi; a competitive cooking show; a home makeover show; as well as several shitty internet game…
I realize that Electus – the earth-shattering, ground-breaking, cutting-edge new business from Ben Silverman and Barry Diller’s IAC/ InterActiveCorp hasn’t launched, but I have recently climbed aboard Khan Manka, Jr.’s Time Machine and gone into the not-too-distant future to retrieve the press release announcing (sadly)…
Seriously, Fortune? Are you fucking kidding me? What, will you sell 15 more magazines with him on the list? Couldn’t come up with that 40th name? What about Jeff Weiner – he’s under 40 and was named CEO of LinkedIn. That’s a pretty big job…
There was a story posted on The Daily Beast by Rebecca Dana titled AYN RAND POWER DRESSING in which she writes: “Ayn Rand–author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, mother of Objectivism, and the conservative movement’s most rapacious cougar–leapt back into popular culture this year…