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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where AOL comes up
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
- ▶ 2:38 Jonah Peretti Yeah, so I, I started it, you know, all over 20 years ago, and, and then, uh, it was sold to AOL, and then I was, had the opportunity to buy it back, so now, um, now HuffPost is our, is our news brand, and so
Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
- ▶ 25:12 Reed Hastings Because at the time, AOL was mailing around, um, startup discs everywhere and so on. 2 times in the scene
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
- ▶ 10:18 Jeff Braverman I mean, most people knew about the internet thing, but like I'm the kid who based on Peter Lynch's philosophy, I bought AOL stock maybe in 1995 before everyone thought it was gonna go bankrupt.
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 52:09 Guy Raz I mean, you knew that the big tech companies, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, Google, they were looking at what you were doing, and they could easily build something to replicate it and potentially crush you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:35 Niklas Zennström You had AOL with AOL Instant Messenger, and you had Microsoft with Microsoft MSN Messenger.
Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
- ▶ 1:29 Guy Raz He's the co-founder of one of the first major internet service providers, America Online, better known as AOL. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:07 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is AOL co-founder Steve Case. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:25 Guy Raz Um, and I wonder whether if now you could go back to, to the Steve case who was building what would become AOL, um, 3 times in the scene
Twitter, Medium and Blogger: Ev Williams
- ▶ 42:20 Ev Williams We all used AOL Instant Messenger on our desktops, and there's this, um, status line, um, which was just like, you know,
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
Grindr: Joel Simkhai
- ▶ 4:47 Joel Simkhai So these were the days of CompuServe and AOL chat rooms. 2 times in the scene
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 15:37 Guy Raz You quit the Herald after three years to basically freelance, and then start writing this column for basically an AOL-affiliated website, right?
- ▶ 16:39 Guy Raz And by the way, this was a time, we should mention, when almost nobody read the internet, like, 97, very few people were reading, I mean, AOL subscribers maybe, but it wasn't like, oh, there's, there's this guy Bill Simmons, there he is,… 3 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
Roku: Anthony Wood
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
- ▶ 2:36 Sam Altman I, uh, used AOL, which was sort of what I thought was the internet at the time, and then a little bit after that figured out there was an actual internet out there, which was, was even cooler.
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 15:59 Matt Mullenweg Um, we'd probably chat, maybe we'd use, like, Skype or AOL, Instant Messenger or something, but,
- ▶ 24:05 Matt Mullenweg I think AOL reached out. 2 times in the scene
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 17:13 Guy Raz I mean, people are going on like Prodigy and AOL and, you know, you've got mail.
- ▶ 21:30 Gary Vaynerchuk oh yeah, I got one, uh, it's AOL at yahoo.com. 2 times in the scene
Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton
How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of Hint
- ▶ 2:07 Kara Goldin And when I left my role at America online, I was running their e-commerce and shopping partnerships. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:19 Guy Raz I mean, you had left AOL and so maybe you had a little bit of money there and you self-financed at the beginning, right?
Cotopaxi: Davis Smith
- ▶ 11:46 Davis Smith And I just, I had one of those discs from AOL that was like free internet for 60 days or whatever.
Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
- ▶ 20:27 David Liu And remember, this was on AOL. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:54 David Liu Who was running the greenhouse and was making investments.
- ▶ 23:21 Guy Raz So, in 1996, when Carly Roni and David Liu pitched their idea for The Knot, the bigwigs at AOL wound up giving them a pretty hefty amount of cash. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:53 Guy Raz It did, was it, will you, was the site making money pretty fast through, you know, those AOL subscription dollars? 2 times in the scene
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu
- ▶ 19:56 David Liu Remember, this was on AOL. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:09 Guy Raz How did you even get to AOL? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:23 David Liu Who was running the greenhouse and was making investments.
- ▶ 22:48 Guy Raz So, in 1996, when Carly Roni and David Liu pitched their idea for The Knot, the bigwigs at AOL wound up giving them a pretty hefty amount of cash. 4 times in the scene
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
- ▶ 10:16 Reid Hoffman At that point, the America Online kind of boom had happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:22 Reid Hoffman It was like America Online.
AOL: Steve Case
- ▶ 0:59 Guy Raz If you happen to be over the age of, say, 35, there is a good chance the first time you ever used email was on a computer with an AOL account, because in the 19 nineties, AOL made sure of that by mailing free CD-ROMs to almost every… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 Steve Case Jim Kimsey and Mark Serif and I ended up in 1985 starting essentially what became America Online.
- ▶ 11:01 Steve Case They paid us a few million dollars to kind of go away quietly, and that's when we, you know, had to rename it, so we called America Online. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:21 Guy Raz How Steve and America Online created one of the most iconic sounds of the 19 nineties.
- ▶ 12:46 Guy Raz So when Steve Case launched America Online in the mid-nineteen eighties, the internet as we know it did not yet exist. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:26 Steve Case And I think it was in, uh, 1991, I was named CEO of the company, uh, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:36 Guy Raz I think anybody, uh, who's over the age of, like, 35 probably remembers having an AOL account, right?
- ▶ 17:56 Steve Case I think the year was 1996, and we had moved to unlimited pricing, and we had system problems, or our system actually was down for 23 hours, nobody could log in, and it was a national news story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:18 Guy Raz Towards the end of the nineties, um, a huge change for AOL when you basically buy Time Warner. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:39 Steve Case I loved the whole twenty-year journey I had with AOL, but I realized that, you know, the first 10 years, even though it was harder and more frustrating and scarier and lonelier, that part of it I really enjoyed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:09 Guy Raz Steve Case, founder of America Online.