Barry Diller likes to give younger workers 'more responsibility than they qualify for' to see who succeeds

"Diller said that he liked bringing people in "without any experience" or "expertise" at their "earliest stage." "Then you give people more responsibility than they qualify for, because, in that forge, you find out who swims and who doesn't," he said. "If you have that kind of environment, out of it is going to come pretty good people.""

""I was totally unprepared, and I had no reason for anyone to give me any responsibility, because I had no experience about anything," Diller said on the podcast. "I got dropped in the deep end of the water, and I figured out how to swim," he said."

""You find out who swims and who doesn't," the IAC and Expedia Group chairman said on the "Invest Like the Best" podcast."

Barry Diller prefers recruiting early-career employees who lack experience and assigning them responsibilities beyond their qualifications to test their capabilities. He believes that exposing such hires to challenging roles reveals who can succeed under pressure and yields strong leaders. Diller began his own career after leaving UCLA and entered the William Morris Agency mailroom in 1961, later driving successes at Paramount Pictures and co-founding Fox Broadcasting Company. Diller has mentored prominent executives such as Dara Khosrowshahi and Michael Eisner. He generally avoids hiring at senior levels and favors talent developed through hands-on experience.

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