Ep 614 | Okay, I Clicked On It!
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
Blaze Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In 2015, six years ago, there were still 2.1 million people using AOL's dial-up service. |
| 0:13.0 | That is incredible to me. |
| 0:17.0 | Yesterday, we talked about how Apollo Global Management was buying Yahoo Finance, Tech Crunch, |
| 0:27.0 | Yahoo Fantasy, and the cash flow stream of AOL. |
| 0:35.0 | So, right now, according to inside information that wants to be anonymous, |
| 0:45.0 | said that there are low thousands of people still using the AOL dial-up service. |
| 0:56.0 | Wow, that is incredible. |
| 0:59.0 | Now, I know AOL has their technical support and their identity theft services, |
| 1:06.0 | which, according to this story, talks about between $10 and $15 a month for that. |
| 1:14.0 | And that alone is $180 million in revenue each year if you've got over a million monthly customers. |
| 1:23.0 | So, that's pretty good. |
| 1:25.0 | So, Apollo Global Management will have a little bit of cash flow to start off their purchase. |
| 1:32.0 | But they claim, well, we're not looking to sell anything off. |
| 1:37.0 | Uh-huh. We'll see how that goes. |
| 1:40.0 | But I was just amazed that we still have people using AOL dial-up service. |
| 1:49.0 | I mean, okay, I guess if that's what you want to use, good. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm happy for you. |
| 1:59.0 | But it doesn't seem like it would be to anyone's advantage to still have dial-up service. |
| 2:09.0 | Hell, I didn't even know we had dial-up left. |
| 2:14.0 | Just, uh, I don't know, just amazing. |
| 2:17.0 | If you actually have AOL's dial-up service and you're listening to this program, |
| 2:25.0 | let me know. |
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