AOL, every mention

AOL: Steve Case Apr 3, 2017 · 35 mentions

• ▶ 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.