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Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
Acquired
Is It the Shareholders or the Business and Is There a Difference?
AOL shareholders got a C for the AOL acquisition. If you if you can't save the patient, like, I know, it's shareholder, but like if the enterprise itself dies, yeah,. So keeping the enterprise itself alive, even in some sort of mutated form is valuable because I guess if the patient is dead, they're dead. But there was no acceleration happening here. There was just, you know, buoyancy. It didn't get them to shore. They grabbed like a piece of driftwood. Like those are businesses that to use Bob Pittman's drug pusher like analogy and accelerated their acquirers at internet speed. That wasn't going on with this one. This
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