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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Brian K Crawford who wrote (1764)2/18/1997 6:11:00 AM
From: Zoltan!   of 13594
 
>>(Compuserve President steps aside. New CEO search begins. Big loss expected) "Big" is a relative turn which can only be compared to AOL's astronomical and unprecedentedly enormous string of continuing losses.

>>(Upside magazine names AOL exec Top Marketer...they decided carpet bombing with the disks was an innovation :-) ) Too bad the rest of management had no clue and still run the place like the Keystone Cops.

Anyone interested might want to read the full article, not just the part put out by AOL's flagship division, PR:
upside.com

"AOL's financial outlook may appear deathly, but Brandt's work
to strengthen its brand name and her reputation for hand-holding
Internet virgins will continue to carry the company."

and about the future:

Danny Hillis Vice President of Research and Development, Walt
Disney Co., Burbank, Calif.

"Danny Hillis is smarter than you are. Yeah, you may know how to make money. But Danny Hillis knows how to make history."
...."Disney has the ABC/Cap Cities empire as his personal guinea pigs, with Disney's tradition of technological innovation and gadgetry on the line. We have no doubt that Hillis will wow the crowds and make our parents comfortable on-line."

and then there's the King of the Morons:

"27. Steve Case, Chairman and CEO, America Online Inc. AOL' s been mocked as the Internet for morons, but Case keeps raking them in. Rampant subscriber churn and new ground rules could snap AOL' s revenue model like a twig--or vault Case into the Internet pantheon. With a decadent $300 million advertising budget slated for 1997, AOL' s no motley fool."

But a fool nonetheless.

Regards
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