AOL: Dotcom Dummies

EPISODE · Sep 12, 2025 · 1H 12M

AOL: Dotcom Dummies

from Corporate Gossip · host Nitetoast Media

Please rate and review this podcast! What ever happened to AOL?! We go all the way back to 1999 (home video included) and meet Steve Case, the CEO of, at the time, the largest technology company in America. High on his own supply, he wrangles Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin into a business noogie and manages to destroy  a third of a TRILLION DOLLARS in shareholder value almost instantly.  TW: murder  Pictures Watch on Youtube  Join the Patreon for the aftershow and tons of bonus content  Thank you to today's sponsors:  Aster + Lupine RainBao Food Truck  Links:  Stealing Time (book) Fools Rush In (book) There Must be a Pony in here Somewhere (book) Gerald M. Levin, Time Warner Chief in a Merger Debacle, Dies at 84 How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong

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