AOL, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 25:39 Chris Dixon I think one analogy might be AOL on the internet. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Talent, Tech Trends, and Culture -- with Ben, Marc, and Tyler Cowen
- ▶ 2:41 Marc Andreessen And then we saw a very specific kind of version of people being unprepared for that, which is we sold Netscape in 1998 to AOL. 8 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 6:53 Chris Dixon And the fact that, versus AOL and all these other companies, you know, and the fact that that ended up winning, like, what's the lesson there?
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 32:25 Steven Sinofsky More devices running America Online connected that, that have the processing power to download chips off to do your taxes.
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 15:53 Chris Dixon The same thing happened by the way with the internet versus AOL. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 25:58 Benedict Evans They saw what happened to, to Yahoo and to AOL and to MySpace.
a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- ▶ 9:14 Darshan Shankar It was a lot of, it was AOL.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 20:29 Luke Wroblewski I mean, AOL is still here.
a16z Podcast | Stickers! Filters! Memes! Livestreams!
- ▶ 32:56 Connie Chan Think of it as the video format of AOL chat rooms back in the nineties.
a16z Podcast | Disruption in Business... and Life
- ▶ 12:01 Derek Anderson Steve Case says that, uh, founder of A-Well says that 50 years ago everyone smart went into government, and today everyone that's smart is going into start-ups.
a16z Podcast | Mobile Falls Hard for Virtual Reality
- ▶ 4:24 Benedict Evans And would anyone have believed, like, and like the portal model won't work, like, people thought the AOL model was going to work for telcos, they didn't realize that it wasn't even going to work for AOL. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 17:46 Alan Knott Craig You need to have, you need to have like a landing page from AOL, Yahoo saying, this is the internet, click here for, you know, something that's useful.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 16:27 Alex Rampell And then, of course, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, the big incumbent mail providers did not make it easy. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
- ▶ 2:09 Alex Rampell I uploaded it to AOL, CompuServe, a bunch of other bulletin boards.
- ▶ 3:14 Alex Rampell I was running my business off of AOL because in the, the early mid nineties, AOL was kind of the de facto internet for most people that didn't have, you know, weren't at a university campus and didn't have access to like a T one line or… 8 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 17:42 Brian Armstrong Like, there's no AOL, and there's, there's no email where my grandmother can't get the family photos, or whatever, on Facebook, or whatever they need to do, but there was a lot of people who went out there, and they got a desktop computer…
a16z Podcast | Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
- ▶ 0:09 Michael Copeland We are here to discuss Verizon and AOL. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:36 Michael Copeland What does AOL bring to Verizon that Verizon wants and needs? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:31 Chris Dixon One is, uh, you know, 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, number one. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Public or Private? Finding the Right Board Seat
- ▶ 0:20 Michael Copeland Uh, she sits on the boards today of AOL, Real Networks, and coupons.com, has been on a lot of other boards, including eBay and Walmart.
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 7:21 David Madden It's almost like, it's almost like AOL in the late nineties here in the States.
a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
- ▶ 0:24 Susan Mernit I'm a former Yahoo, Netscape, and AOL product development executive, and when I moved to Oakland, I started an organization called Hack the Hood that teaches coding and tech skills to low-income young people of color.
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 10:50 Marc Andreessen Uh, by the way, twenty-five million of them were on AOL.