AOL, every mention
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every year anyone Satya Nadella 3Charlie Songhurst 3Marc Andreessen 2Ben Thompson 2
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Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 36:01 Ben Thompson I think the better analogy if you're an OpenAI skeptic would be AOL, where they want to be sort of like the interface for everything that you might do, and it goes through their channels. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 23:26 Satya Nadella I mean, at some level, the information highway, uh, when I look at what we were trying to do was, man, this quality of service is a thing, this TCP IP, what, it just is not going to work, and so therefore, uh, we were competing against AOL…
- ▶ 26:00 Satya Nadella So AOL and MSN kind of, you know, lost out, let's call it, to the open web. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 37:21 Charlie Songhurst Lycos, Excite, Autavista, AOL, Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:59 Marc Andreessen Because we sold our company AOL, I was at AOL on the executive staff in the board meetings in 1999, and the big question for AOL at that point was how to get from being the narrowband provider to being the broadband provider, because we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:12 Charlie Songhurst AOL and eBay than it is today.