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AOL

AOL

software
Last discussed Sep 23, 2026

Early online service provider that provided internet access and content before the modern web became widespread.

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Luca Ferrari
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"We can spend say one year rebuilding the email infrastructure for AOL and then seven months helping rethink subscriptions on Vimeo."

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Scott Galloway
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Praised: Extreme resilience — has survived cloud, mobile, and AI disruption cycles vs: Used alongside Vimeo and WeTransfer as examples of resilient legacy Bending S...

"They're making a single dollar from AOL. That dollar is going to be around a thousand years from now because if they're still able to make money from a company that's so old and they've already faced disruption from cloud, mobile, AI — these are v..."

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Jordi Hays
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vs: Compared to fashion brands like Chrome Hearts that go through cycles of coolness

"I can imagine a world where five years from now every Gen Z kid is like, 'Oh, of course I'm using AOL.' Like it's vintage and it's cool and nostalgic."

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Mark Pincus
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Used for: Alternative investment recommendation for online services Praised: Way better than Prodigy vs: Much better and cheaper alternative to Prodigy investment

"Why don't we just buy this company AOL? They're public. They're way better. It was 110 million and nobody liked that."

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"In the late 1990s, I got laid off from AOL. So, I came into a bunch of money cuz I had a bunch of options."

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Marc Andreessen
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"AOL connected all the AOL users which were just normal people to the internet in September 1993. That's the day the internet changed."

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Jason Fried
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"I put up on AOL. So this is like pre-internet, right?"

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