AOL: THE WORLD’S OLDEST STARTUP

1985:IN THEBEGINNING

Q-LINK:ELECTRONIC MAIL

ONLINE CHATFILE SHARINGONLINE NEWS

INSTANT MESSAGINGONLINE GAMES

1991: AMERICA ONLINE IS BORN

WE PUT THE WORLD ONLINE

50%

AT THE HEART OF POPULAR

CULTURE

THEN THIS HAPPENED

“A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN THE UNFOLDING OF THE INTERNET AGE”

THEN THIS HAPPENED

THEN THIS HAPPENED

BUBBLES BURST

WEB 2-POINT-HUH?

INNOVATION IS A CULTURE

2009: BACK TO THE FUTURE

CULTURE AND CODE

CULTURE AND CODE

INNOVATION + VISION

CULTURE

CODE

2010

2013

2014

2014

2014

2010

2010

2011

2012

2014

2 EMMY

NOMINATIONS

2012

2013

2013

LAUNCH

ON PBS

2013COMES TO EUROPE

2014

CREATIVE EFFECTIVENESS

GRAND PRIX

2014

2015

2015

2015

2015

2015

Verizon

Purchases

AOL for $4.4B

2015

FIRST UK ORIGINAL

AGORA

INNOVATING THE NEWS

INNOVATINGVIDEO

INNOVATINGTECHNOLOGY

AT THE HEART OF POPULAR CULTURE

(AGAIN)

SO WHERE NEXT?

CULTURE

CODE

2010

2013

2014

2014

2014

2010

2010

2011

2012

2014

2 EMMY

NOMINATIONS

2012

2013

2013

LAUNCH

ON PBS

2013COMES TO EUROPE

2014

CREATIVE EFFECTIVENESS

GRAND PRIX

2014

2015

2015

2015

2015

2015

Verizon

Purchases

AOL for $4.4B

2015

FIRST UK ORIGINAL

AGORA ?

1. INNOVATION CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE

2. KEEP ITERATING; NOTHING’S EVER FINISHED

3. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE FIRST… JUST BETTER

4. “VISION WITHOUT EXECUTION IS HALLUCINATION”

5. IT’S A CULTURE, NOT A PROCESS

6. LIFE, ESPECIALLY AT AOL, IS A ROLLERCOASTER…

THANK YOU