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AOL Ready To Be Where The Flavor Is!

By Choire, 12:33 PM on Mon Oct 22 2007, 859 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Randy Falco, the machete-swinging chief of AOL who accomplished the biggest layoffs in the company's layoff-happy history, is so super-jazzed to be moving corporate HQ to ad-friendly New York! "By April, he said, AOL should be in its new headquarters on lower Broadway, in Greenwich Village, which he described as 'a hot, cool place for young people to be.'" Seriously, he did!

Change Is Tough, but Necessary, AOL Chief Says [WaPo]

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