AOL-Time Warner's Merger
How did AOL’s inflated stock mask the real risks of the merger?
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38 mins
Explore the rise and fall of the AOL-Time Warner merger, a deal meant to unite old and new media but ended in massive financial losses. Discover how inflated stock, outdated business models, and poor management led to one of the most infamous mergers in history.
Ep 1:
The Deal That Doomed a Century
Meet AOL and Time Warner, the mismatched giants whose walled-garden empire and century-old media dynasty were about to collide in history's most disastrous merger.
Ep 2:
How Two Titans Struck a Fatal Bargain
As broadband loomed and Time Warner's own internet dreams flopped, Steve Case and Gerald Levin struck a $160 billion bargain built on bubble-era math and mutual fear.
Discussions (13)
Nathan
Level 7 · 8 mo agoCalling Case a marketing genius is a reach! 🙄 He just got lucky with the timing. The host is giving him way too much credit for that bubble money
Brady
Level 6 · 8 mo agoCase pulled a fast one.
Jared
Level 6 · 7 mo agoYou claim the merger destroyed value, but in the closest possible world without it AOL is worthless. Case exercised his causal power to secure real assets.
