AOL

includes AOL Instant Messenger, AOL Chat Rooms

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 68 times in 27 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (22), Alex Rampell (11), Michael Copeland (10), Chris Dixon (7), Benedict Evans (4), Steven Sinofsky (3), Ben Horowitz (2), Susan Mernit (1)

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Everything said about AOL, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: Netscape held 90% market share when the internet had 50M users
“We had at one point over 90%, you know, market share for all people on the internet using our browser, and it turned out there were fifty million people on the internet. Like, fifty million people around the world were on the internet. By the way, twenty-five …”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:41 a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Facebook acts as Myanmar's primary internet portal, similar to 1990s AOL
“For many people who are connected in Myanmar, it's still a small percentage of the population, but Facebook is the internet. It's almost like AOL in the late nineties here in the States.”
David Madden Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:08 a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dixon: AOL is the largest acquisition Verizon can make without regulatory oversight
“If you go a lot bigger than AOL, or, you know, at some point, like, this is probably the biggest company you can buy and not have major regulatory oversight”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:31 a16z Podcast | Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Shankar: Curated bundled content always precedes user-generated platforms
“If you look at the history of, The internet, the web, and mobile, a lot of bundling was occurring in the early days where it wasn't completely user generated. It wasn't Geocities super early on. It was a lot of, it was AOL. It was kind of bundled news before e…”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:58 a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dixon: Early open internet beat AOL despite initial clunkiness because developers built on it
“The same thing happened by the way with the internet versus AOL. AOL had a, it was a much slicker interface and more performant in the beginning. The internet was clunky and weird. And slower and all these other things, but you had all the developers building …”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:53 a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Horowitz: Half of all 1990s internet traffic routed through AOL
“Half the traffic on the internet went through AOL.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:01 a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
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