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<p><P>Every era has its merger; every era has its story. For the New Media age it was an even bigger disaster&#58; the AOL-Time Warner deal. <P>At the time AOL and Time Warner were considered a matchless combination of old media content and new media distribution. But very soon after the deal was announced things started to go bad&#8212;and then from bad to worse. Less than four years after the deal was announced, every significant figure in the deal -save the politically astute Richard Parsons&#8212;has left the company, along with scores of others. Nearly a $100 billion was written off and a stock that once traded at $100 now trades near $10. <P>What happened? Where did it all go wrong? In this deeply sourced and deftly written book, Nina Munk gives us a window into the minds of two of the oddest men to ever run billion-dollar empires. Steve Case, the boy wonder who built AOL one free floppy disk at a time, was searching for a way out of the New Economy.&#160; Meanwhile Jerry Levin, who'd made his reputation as a visionary when he put HBO on satellite distribution, was searching for a monumental deal. These two men, more interested in their place in history than their personal fo

Author

Nina Munk.

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060540340

Subjects

History, Management, Business

Rating

4.4 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14