"I'm A Huge Shareholder And I'm Not Going To Let AOL Run Into The Rocks" http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-armstrong-talks-about-layoffs-2011-3/comments en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:09:30 -0400 Jay Yarow http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7ab74849e2ae2c20060000 Yawn Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:59:04 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7ab74849e2ae2c20060000 He sure looks tired and not very convincing. By the way, what is that global reach that he is talking about? AOL shut most of it's international markets last year, and I'm not sure that US advertisers care too much about the odd bit of international traffic hitting one of their US sites. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d79a7b849e2aec108240000 Hey Tim Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:40:24 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d79a7b849e2aec108240000 Hey Tim, You made $200M from Google for nothing am glad you will lose it sooner investing it in AOL. Time will tell....Every D.. has his day. You had it earlier on....Do stash some in Gold & emerging market funds, you can be hedged. and can keep it going for old age health care. You have changed course every quarter, surprised how the board is managing you ? and your bull shit. May be you buying AOL stocks gives them some sort of confidence & solace. Cheers. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d798329cadcbb4d7b040000 Unbelievable Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:04:25 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d798329cadcbb4d7b040000 Did he just say - "People don't understand??" If people don't understand then why the hell would they want to invest in something they don't? It's not math class. Tim you are looking completely out-of-sorts. Time to sit back and introspect a little. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d797fbfcadcbbd9791c0000 Shakesmcgee Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:49:50 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d797fbfcadcbbd9791c0000 What a piece of trash! He's all about "the $20 million dollars he's invested." Fuck him. He just laid off so many people and this is what he's talking about?? Such poor form...SUCH poor form. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d794019cadcbb1d71070000 Gone in 2008 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:18:17 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d794019cadcbb1d71070000 AOL - from 30,000,000 paying customers to a Left wing blog in 10 years! At the tune of destroying Netscape, Compuserve, WinAmp, ICQ brands. And wasting 100s of 1,000,000s. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7938a949e2aee51f1f0000 Wow, that last luge was a success! Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:46:33 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7938a949e2aee51f1f0000 After the company busts its ass on the umpteenth 'luge', the reward is a kick in the teeth immediately followed by a boot to the ass. They wonder why loyalty and morale is low, and people don't give a shit about the luges aside from the free alcohol. Trust and confidence in the leadership of TA, Levick, and the greek cookie woman is gone. Why? Hmm... Bust your ass and get the boot. It's not a matter of if the company survives, but when it closes for good. Because the spirit of most everyone within is now beaten. Way to go TA http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d791a734bd7c8e86f0e0000 Turnaround Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:37:39 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d791a734bd7c8e86f0e0000 TA has lost control of the business.... google buddies are getting tossed aside and demoted...Eun gone, Clift demoted, Amin demoted, Levick next...so many inspiring talks and one liners. Just nothing to show for it. Need Arianna's magic to work miracles. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d79081749e2aec26a020000 Jon Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:19:19 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d79081749e2aec26a020000 Employees in Dulles are not worried. tim lied about no layoffs last year and this can just be added to the string of layoffs that have happened. He is squirming because he is being "outed" for the liar he is. AOL employees will understandably continue to milk the company (and who wouldn't) but they all know there days are numbered...not in years, but in months. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7906754bd7c8b26b2c0000 Jay Yarow Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:12:21 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7906754bd7c8b26b2c0000 Yes, $20 mill of stock. Updated. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7903fd4bd7c89e6b230000 Eliot Spitzer Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:01:49 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d7903fd4bd7c89e6b230000 You should have headlined this as "Watch Tim Armstrong squirm in his seat and come off as very defensive." Watching this interview, he does not look like a guy who is excited about his company. He looks like he'd rather be doing anything else than answer some hard questions. In fact, he looks downright miserable. What is it? He bought 20M shares or he bought $20M worth of shares? Who cares? Just because he bought the stock does not make him a compotent CEO. This guy is Icarus! There's an idea! The next AOL reorg can be named Project Icarus! Now his turnaround timeline is 2013? He won't last that long. He says they have turned around ad sales? How does that square with YOY ad sales being down 30% in a up market? He forgets to qualify that the smaller the audience, the higher the CPM, but less overall money. Instead he implies that the WSJ's $4.00 CPM estimate is way off, and it is more than 4X that. Oh yeah? Hey Tim, what is a better deal? A $16.00CPM for that infintesimal PATCH audience that generates actual revenue of $10.00 or a $4.00CPM for a larger audience that brings in $100?