AOL, every mention
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every year anyone Chamath Palihapitiya 4Stephen McKeon 3Chatri Sityodtong 2Alex Sacerdote 2Tom Steyer 1Rick Heitzman 1Mike Maples, Jr. 1Matt Spielman 1Joelle Kayden 1Jeff Hausenbold 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 14:57 Alex Sacerdote And even before that, I invested in AOL for my own PA at the time, which was just growing like crazy.
- ▶ 34:32 Alex Sacerdote Tencent was a beauty in that, where they started literally with AOL instant messenger that they hacked, and then turned it into a payment system.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 1:09:20 Mike Maples, Jr. Michael Birch, I guess, had Bebo, this social network that got bought by AOL for the gigantic price, and it ended up going to zero.
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 14:05 Rick Heitzman They rarely saw each other, and the company was just burning capital, doing everything from big deals with AOL, where they were paying five dollars for a dollar of revenue, to just having a bloated structure.
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 40:06 Tom Steyer AOL, the internet companies, the companies that are internet focused.
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 19:11 Anthony Scaramucci I'm sitting in front of my fat box computer with my wired connected mouse, and underneath my desk is this modem that's gonna dial up the internet, and it's gonna whirr and burr and catch a dial tone, and then 35 to 40 seconds later, my…
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 47:57 Stephen McKeon 94, 95, that era is when we went from, a few people were really into it, had email addresses, but general public didn't have email addresses until Hotmail and AOL started taking hold.
Joelle Kayden – Canvassing the Landscape at Accolade Partners, Venture is Eating the Investment World 7 (Capital Allocators, EP.235)
- ▶ 9:48 Joelle Kayden I mean, the firm had an amazing franchise in so many different sectors, whether it was consumer taking Starbucks public or whether it was taking Qualcomm public in the semiconductor world, America online, and then every software company…
Matt Spielman – Executive Coaching in Asset Management (Capital Allocators, EP.210)
- ▶ 13:26 Matt Spielman sold it to AOL, and he's looking for his next thing.
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 13:37 Jeff Hausenbold I thought about strategy and how I was competing with companies like Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Costco, AOL, Yahoo, Kodak, Fuji, Sony, American Greetings.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 31:09 Chris Dixon The information superhighway was Microsoft, Disney, Comcast, which was to have these big centralized systems and you would go buy a box and they would have these video on demand stuff and a bunch of like, it'd be like this little play pen,…
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- ▶ 7:21 Chamath Palihapitiya And go back into technology, and so I moved to Silicon Valley, and I worked at a startup called Winamp that had been bought by AOL. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 Chamath Palihapitiya When I was in my mid-twenties, I ran AIM and ICQ, which was an instant messaging division.
Stephen McKeon – Professor of Crypto Security Tokens (Capital Allocators, EP.69)
- ▶ 1:04:39 Stephen McKeon Mine was in, like, maybe, 1994, and it was through AOL. 2 times in the scene
Chatri Sityodtong – Warrior Spirit (Capital Allocators, EP.22)
- ▶ 15:02 Chatri Sityodtong You know, it turned out okay in the sense that we sold the company, but, you know, it wasn't at the valuation we thought we'd had, because we had actually received a verbal acquisition offer in early stages discussions for a buyout by AOL… 2 times in the scene