And this was my second appearance on the acquired podcast also from 2017.

We're talking about the AOL Time Warner merger which has gone down in history as the worst merger of all time.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.

Today, like a Harvard Business School case study of a 70 car pile up on the interstate

here is the story of the AOL Time Warner merger. So like a thousand dollars put in Domino's at its nader has a better

return than Apple. Wow. We're in the wrong business. Yeah, I know.

Bottom fishing is a dangerous game though.

Yeah, yeah. Welcome back to episode 44 of Acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs.

I'm Ben Gilbert.

I'm David Rosenthal.

And we are your hosts.

So today, back by popular demand, we've got Brian McCullough of the Internet History Podcast on the show for a crossover

episode.

So thank you for joining us and hello Brian.

Hi guys, Popular Demand, are you sure?

Yes.

This episode was one of the more popular ones of this year.

Did we do the other one this year?

Trust me, it's in my top 20 for sure,

and I'm over 150 episodes at this point.

Wow, sweet.

Well, you are in our top five, so.

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