AOL, every mention
35 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to AOL
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every year 2022 anyone David Rosenthal 59Ben Gilbert 36Jason Calacanis 12Brendan Eich 12Brad Gerstner 1Anthony Gonzalez 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 8:33 Ben Gilbert Everything you sold to AOL.
- ▶ 8:34 Jason Calacanis I think I sold to AOL.
- ▶ 13:04 Jason Calacanis At AOL, and I had sold my company AOL, and, like, the revolving door of AOL.
- ▶ 13:19 Jason Calacanis And so I went to this, and I just sold Weblogs Inc to them.
- ▶ 13:21 Ben Gilbert Like a million AOL users?
- ▶ 13:27 Jason Calacanis And with AOL and other assets they wanted to buy, they were gonna march to a billion users.
- ▶ 1:35:59 Jason Calacanis And when I sold weblogs to AOL, people were like,
- ▶ 1:36:09 Jason Calacanis What they didn't realize was AOL autos, AOL tech, AOL lifestyle, those were sold out at like a 90 dollar RPM, revenue per thousand pages.
- ▶ 1:36:09 Jason Calacanis What they didn't realize was AOL autos, AOL tech, AOL lifestyle, those were sold out at like a 90 dollar RPM, revenue per thousand pages.
- ▶ 1:36:09 Jason Calacanis What they didn't realize was AOL autos, AOL tech, AOL lifestyle, those were sold out at like a 90 dollar RPM, revenue per thousand pages.
- ▶ 1:36:21 Jason Calacanis So then they would put an Engadget or an Autoblog story or Blogging Baby or whatever other blog we had on the homepage of AOL, and a half million people would flow through, and then they would put those ads on our sites.
- ▶ 1:36:39 Jason Calacanis And those people were like, great, um, because it was costing AOL to make content like 500 dollars per piece of content.
- ▶ 1:36:46 Jason Calacanis 3000 dollars per piece of content on AOL.com slash autos, whatever.
- ▶ 2:14:50 David Rosenthal You get that AOL weblogs exit.
- ▶ 2:15:11 Jason Calacanis Five or 10 on it, and I'm sitting there, and they're like, oh, wires are good, you know, the BD people are AOL, and so I'm like, hitting refresh.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 12:47 David Rosenthal This was the AOL days leading into the Netscape days.
- ▶ 2:42:26 Ben Gilbert And due to the court documents, there was a, uh, conversation leaked about Kevin strategizing over AIM with a very strategic advisor about how to position the sale to Facebook.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 3:58:28 Ben Gilbert and oh, now I'm old enough for it to be on our AppleTalk network, and old enough for it to be connected to the actual internet so I can use things like AIM.
From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:38 Anthony Gonzalez Um, I think my first AOL chat room I was in, I was definitely not a teenager, um, and shouldn't have been in there.
Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:59 Brad Gerstner Following AOL in the nineties, really interested in investing.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:26 David Rosenthal So AOL comes in, they buy Netscape.
- ▶ 21:05 Brendan Eich Yes, and the Mozilla Suite was pretty much the un-Netscape, to use un-Googled as an analogy, the un-Netscape version of the code, and this actually started winning users because AOL bought Netscape and started festooning Netscape with
- ▶ 21:19 Brendan Eich ICQ buttons and aim buttons and things like that.
- ▶ 23:17 Brendan Eich And in fact, as AOL ingested Netscape, which at first didn't involve any
- ▶ 25:24 Brendan Eich And through an enormous stroke of luck, Mitch Kapoor, who founded Lotus one, two, three, and has his own experience with Microsoft's tricks, was friends with Ted Leonsis, one of the AOL executives.
- ▶ 26:39 Brendan Eich But when we learned AOL was going to shut down Netscape, Ted, to his credit, asked Mitch what to do.
- ▶ 26:57 Brendan Eich And in spite of some sniping by a VP at AOL, nobody liked who really wanted to
- ▶ 30:10 Ben Gilbert Whereas everyone who was stuck inside of Netscape at AOL had sort of lost the fire.
- ▶ 30:14 Ben Gilbert AOL at first thought this was a strategic asset, now realized it wasn't going anywhere.
- ▶ 38:32 Brendan Eich And some of the people I've worked with at AOL or at Mozilla were working on the prototype.
- ▶ 39:06 Brendan Eich It had Darren Fisher, who I'd worked with at AOL.
- ▶ 1:02:42 Brendan Eich I knew how to do 10 people out of AOL with the Netscape Mozilla codebase because I'd worked on that codebase with hundreds of engineers at
- ▶ 1:02:51 Brendan Eich You know, Netscape AOL.
- ▶ 1:02:56 Brendan Eich AOL did lay off a lot of them, but kept some on.
- ▶ 1:03:13 Brendan Eich We were burning down the two million dollars from AOL.