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AOL: Dotcom Dummies
Season 6 · Episode 4

AOL: Dotcom Dummies

Corporate Gossip · Nitetoast Media

September 12, 20251h 12mExplicit

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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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