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Borthwick: Time Warner Has Failed to Adapt to Evolving Digital Video Distribution
“They are not a technology company, and they've really struggled, you know, over the years to understand how they interface with new forms of distribution, new technology, and how they integrate that both into their business to make their business run better, b…”
Case: AOL went public at a $70M valuation before peaking at $160B
“We were the first internet company to go public in the 1992. We raised ten million dollars in our IPO. The market value that day was seventy million dollars. And seven, eight years later, when we were negotiating the merger with Time Warner, it had gone from s…”
Time Warner Investments maintains a 50/50 balance between financial and strategic returns
“I think for us, it's definitely both. So we need to make money. You know, we want to be competitive with VC returns and make money for our shareholders and our company. But the strategic piece for us is equally important. So it's sort of a fifty-fifty.”
Borthwick: Time Warner's Corporate HQ Is a Thin Holding Company of Lawyers
“Time Warner is a big company. It's in essence a holding company. Most people don't realize that, but it's, you know, the corporate entity is, is fairly thin, and it's mostly inhabited by lawyers and accountants, the corporate headquarters, and all of the sort …”