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What’s AOL, really?

Let's look back at how CEO Tim Armstrong described the company in 2012.

Here’s a coda to our report about Verizon’s deal to purchase AOL

We had AOL CEO Tim Armstrong on the program about two and a half years ago, when I asked him — as I sometimes do with CEOs — to describe what his company does in five words or less.

This is what he said:

AOL will be the best connected, most shared and most impactful brand and media company with a technology platform in the world.

So based on today’s news, here’s another way to say that: $4.4 billion. 

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