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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 3:43 David Tisch I grew up loving the internet, and I think it's the internet, not technology, that I fell in love with, and so I watched the internet get deployed through Prodigy and CompuServe and then on to AOL, and AOL was really my entry point into…
20VC: a16z's Scott Kupor on The Biggest Learnings From Scaling a16z from $300m to $7Bn AUM, The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Pitching VCs & Why VC Is Simply A Customer Service Business
- ▶ 8:18 Scott Kupor The second thing is just pure market sizing, which is obvious, but you know, you've probably heard the story from Mark, but when they sold Netscape to AOL in 2008, I think the total size of the internet population was under a hundred…
20VC: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on Why It Is More Important To Be Right Than Contrarian, The Most Common Mistakes Made By Hyper-Growth Companies & 3 Characteristics That Make An Individual Incredible At Sourcing
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings And before Lightspeed, Jeremy was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development, and Chief of Staff to the CEO, and then as General Manager of Netscape.
- ▶ 4:00 Jeremy Liew Back in 2006, there were not that many people who were focused on the consumer world, and I'd spent the first 10 years of my career working for a variety of Web one point O companies, Netscape, AOL, and so forth, and so when there was…
20VC: AOL Founder, Steve Case on Why The Best Venture Investments of The Next 10 Years Will Likely Not Be In The Valley, Why The CEO Must Be The Shock Absorber For Company Morale and Why Vision Without Execution is Hallucination
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings On the other side of the table, Steve is recognized as one of America's best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, as the co-founder of America Online, or AOL. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:57 Steve Case Co-founding America Online AOL in 1985, so what's that, 33 years ago, and that was the early days of the internet at the time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:39 Steve Case As you said, I lived through that with this first wave of the internet with AOL. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:49 Steve Case Sometimes harder to attract the attention of potential kind of business partners to scale your company, but there's no question there are great entrepreneurs that are doing super innovative things, and my overall view, and it ties in with…
- ▶ 17:41 Steve Case Well, I tell them a little bit of my own story and the, and the story of those early days of AOL and the early days of the internet now seems obvious because everybody's connected, but in those early days, it was a real struggle.
- ▶ 26:27 Steve Case Whether it be when I was running AOL or now running Revolution, I surround myself with people that are way better at managing your day-to-day priorities than I am.