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AOL Boots Loser CEO for Google's Tim Armstrong

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Schm
03/12/09

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But how will this effect my grandma's AOL service? Has anyone thought about my grandma in all of this?
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Takes One to Know One
03/12/09

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Excuse me. What's AOL again?
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Owen Thomas
03/13/09

@frobisher: As I wrote, "the Time Warner Internet unit." Now, what does that mean? You've hit on AOL's problem right there.
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Nick Denton
03/12/09

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Why are you so sure he's the best man for the job? He's no product guy -- and arguably that's what AOL needs if it's to restore the business. Also, this is messy timing. AOL just hired Greg Coleman, a well-regarded sales executive. Unless they told him he'd be reporting to another sales veteran -- one he probably looks down upn -- he'll be out of there pretty sharply. And AOL will have to remake its sales team yet again -- for the fourth time in as many years.
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ZorbaTheseus
03/12/09

@Nick Denton: Here's the interesting question. Tim was clearly interviewed for the Yahoo job, presumably offered it. NO WAY was Bartz the number one choice. She's OLD, she's enterprise software, Of course the #1 was a Googler. Tim would have been ideal for YHOO - a DISPLAY business.

So why turn down YHOO and take AOL? A huge percentage of equity in the case of a spinoff? Or the chance to run TW? Tim is kind of an old media guy...
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Nick Denton
03/12/09

@ZorbaTheseus: Looks like neither Coleman nor the other AOL executives had any warning.

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Owen Thomas
03/13/09

@Nick Denton: Oh, is that what we call whimsy-pursuing redesign fetishists these days -- "product guys"? Such a kind-hearted euphemism! Better than "visionary," at any rate.
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Nick Denton
03/13/09

@Owen Thomas: Yeah, that Mark Zuckerberg just can't stop fiddling!
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