At Aol, We Thought The Killer App

In The Entrepreneurial World, When You Launch A Company, You Have A Particular Idea, A Particular Product, A Particular Service, Almost Always You Pivot, You Shift. The Market Reacts To Your Initial Idea. You Make Some Adjustments. It's Only After Making A Few Adjustments That You See The Success.

Keep Your Eye On The Prize And Focus On Your Mission. Remember What You’re Trying To Do, What Your Value Is, Why It’s Important, And At The Same Time, Change Course And Direction. If The Market’s Telling You Different Things How Are You Going To Adjust To That?

One Of The Problems With Computers, Particularly For The Older People, Is They Were Befuddled By Them, And The Computers Have Gotten Better. They Have Gotten Easier To Use. They Have Gotten Less Expensive. The Software Interfaces Have Made Things A Lot More Accessible

Because I Do Think - Not Just In Building Aol - But Just The World In Which We Live Is A Very Confusing, Rapidly Changing World Where Technology Has Accelerated.

Most Of The People Who Had Pcs Did Not Have Modems And Could Not Use Those Pcs As Communicating Devices. They Really Were Using Them For Spreadsheets Or Word Processing Or Storing Recipes Or Playing Games Or What Have You.