Barry Diller Bristles At 'Lazy' Label; Calls Kristof 'Bird Brainy'
At yesterday’s exclusive, private Reuters summit (we were told it wasn’t open to non-Reuters press, though we tried) IAC Interactive Corp.’s Barry Diller said he was close to announcing a new product.
“I actually think that there’s going to be real opportunity in the conversion of print journalism to online, real opportunity, which I think very few people have attacked head on.”
Diller also responded to New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof’s assertion that Diller “he may be the laziest man in America” for his $469 million compensation package.
The big paycheck covered 11 years and was from a single stock option grant from several companies he stitched together over time.
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