"The Killer Dillers"
 "The Killer Dillers"    | |
|---|---|
| Founder |  Barry Diller |
| Membership | •  Michael Eisner• Jeffrey Katzenber • Don Simpson • Dara Khosrowshahi • Dawn Steel • Garth Ancier • Aaron Spelling • Steven Spielberg • Mindy Grossman |
| People who had a boost to their careers after coming in contact with Hollywood executive and online dating tycoon Barry Diller | |
The billionaire media tycoon Barry Diller is responsible for what the media dubs The Killer Dillers people whom Diller mentored and who later became big-time media and internet executives in their own right.
People
Examples include Michael Eisner (who was President of Paramount Pictures while Diller was its Chairman & CEO, and went on to become Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company), Jeffrey Katzenberg (a head of production of Paramount under Diller who became a co-founder of DreamWorks SKG and former head of DreamWorks Animation and Walt Disney Studios), Don Simpson (who was President of Production at Paramount under Diller and Eisner before forming an independent production company initially based on the Paramount lot with Jerry Bruckheimer), Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber), Dawn Steel (a VP of Production for Paramount when Diller was Chair & CEO; she went on to become President of Columbia Pictures, one of the first women to run a major movie studio) and Garth Ancier (former President of BBC America).[1]
Diller worked with Stephen Chao at Fox Television Network, whom he later hired as President of Programming and Marketing at USA Network. Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, was Diller's General Counsel during their tenure at USA Broadcasting, and again as Chief of Business Operations and a member of Barry Diller's Office of the Chairman at IAC/InterActiveCorp.
He also helped promote the careers of Aaron Spelling and Steven Spielberg, both in career infancy at the time, as producer and director.[2]
Others included Mindy Grossman, CEO of Weight Watchers.[3]
Known members
2 of the 9 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Michael Eisner | Eisner was Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005. |
| Steven Spielberg |
