Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
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Steve Case and the Internet Bubble
Steve Case was wary of doubling down on another internet company because that makes sense strategically if you think the bubble's gonna burst. Disney, they went hard at Disney, but apparently Michael Eisner was a hard no. AOL guys knew we were living on borrowed time and we had to buy something of substance by using that huge currency. We didn't use the term bubble, but we did talk about a coming nuclear winter.
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