Evidence receipt / observation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
18 Sept 2017 Acquired AOL and Time Warner (with the Internet History Podcast)
“I was going to say the only way this could be better for AOL is if they actually bought a growth company like eBay.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 18 Sept 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…Or Priceline, Domino’s Pizza, yeah. That’s right. I was going to say the only way this could be better for AOL is if they actually bought a growth company like eBay. Yeah. That could have been a win. But then, like we said, listen, the cowboys come into eBay, tell them how to run things, would they have been smart enough to buy PayPal. PayPal was the real valuable business there. It's got to be an F, guys. There’s a reason that people call it the worst merger of all time because it destroys, well……
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