Summary: What is generally considered the worst merger of all time, and certainly the crescendo event of the dotcom bubble era, today we take a …

Summary Joe Schober was the longest serving employee of America Online, working there as an engineer, and later chief architect, from 1992 until just a …

Summary Most of you know Chamath Palihapitiya as one of the most prominent and progressive venture capitalists working today. But before forming Social Capital, Chamath …

Summary Jeff Wilkins was the co-founder and first CEO of CompuServe, perhaps the original consumer online service. Jeff recounts for us CompuServe’s founding in 1970, the …

Summary: Oliver Knowlton is another one of our Pathfinder.com alumni. He’s had a wide and varied career in media, from his role as the General …

Summary: Jan Brandt is a legend in the world of marketing. She singlehandedly led the famous AOL “carpet-bombing” campaign that put millions of AOL trial …

Ever since the chapters on AOL I posted last month, I’ve gotten a small but steady stream of emails asking what ever happened to AOL. …

What If I Told You… … there was a crazy entrepreneur who was the true founder of what would become America Online? He was the …

Summary: America Online survives the inevitable run-in with Microsoft, only to come out the other side stronger.  The company has to endure major PR fiascos …

Summary: We take a step back to look at the early online services: CompuServe, Delphi, GEine, the WELL and especially, early AOL. Why? Well, because …