Corporate Gossip

AOL: Dotcom Dummies

Sep 12, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min · Season 6 · Episode 4Explicit
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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

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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