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Episode 44: AOL - Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)

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Dr. Coop's Not Going to Raise Another Round

As early as December 98, internal emails show that Steve Case and Pittman are kicking around the idea of a safe lily pad to kind of land this company on. They can see, well, listen, Dr. Coop's not going to raise another round. So, when that deal is up in three years or whatever it is, where are we going to get another Dr.Coop, right? Well, there's also... It's the 1999 Super Bowl when I think there were 30 dot-com companies, or maybe it was 2000.

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