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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely
- ▶ 0:53 Harry Stebbings Teller, an ad tech company he sold to AOL in 2010, and also a long-time media and advertising executive.
20VC: Oren Zeev on Why Diversification Does Not Work, Thesis Based Investing Is Sceptical & Partners Mostly Stay Together For LPs
20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Prior to True, John founded three of his own companies, the first being in 1986 with Mountain Bike Outfitters Inc., but following several years founding companies, John made his move into VC with Summit Partners, and then enjoyed roles…
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 2:57 Mike Jones Then my second company was acquired by AOL, and then I became a super active angel.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings On the operational side, Jason was previously a Sequoia founder, with web blogs sold to AOL for a reported 25 to forty million dollars.
- ▶ 15:30 Jason Calacanis So even AOL and Yahoo, which went through decades of mismanagement each, they are still alive and they still exist and they still have a combined billion users, right? 2 times in the scene
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings Tony's also the co-founder and CEO at About.me, acquired by AOL in 2010, and they've since raised funding from some of our true favorites in the industry, including Brad at Foundry, Softech, and Bullpen, just to name a few. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Can Founders Really Trust Their VC & How To Navigate The Acquisition Process Successfully with Josh Felser, Co-Founder @ Freestyle.vc
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings As for Josh, prior to being in VC with Freestyle, Josh started two successful internet companies, Spinner and Grouper, which were acquired by AOL, Time Warner, and Sony, for three hundred and twenty million dollars, and sixty-five million…
- ▶ 16:48 Josh Felser So with the spinner, we were asked what our number was, and we, and I remember, I was sitting in the boardroom with AOL, and I, I said, five hundred million.
20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- ▶ 4:16 John Borthwick And so I was, I ended up selling my first company to AOL. 2 times in the scene