Comments on: With Bartz out at Yahoo, is AOL’s Tim Armstrong next? http://gigaom.com/2011/09/08/with-bartz-out-at-yahoo-is-aols-tim-armstrong-next/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Richard Donald Jones http://gigaom.com/2011/09/08/with-bartz-out-at-yahoo-is-aols-tim-armstrong-next/#comment-654090 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:58:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=402882#comment-654090 How did Time Warner not fold AOL into Time Warner Cable in 2000. That would have resolved the “what are we question” and positioned the company for at least two decades.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2011/09/08/with-bartz-out-at-yahoo-is-aols-tim-armstrong-next/#comment-653991 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:37:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=402882#comment-653991 Thanks for the comment, Ben — a number of people seem to share your views in that regard :-)

]]> By: Ben Chipper http://gigaom.com/2011/09/08/with-bartz-out-at-yahoo-is-aols-tim-armstrong-next/#comment-653970 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:45:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=402882#comment-653970 Armstrong has systematically destroyed AOL over the past two years. He hired incompetent lightweights from Google, putting junior level people into senior level jobs, who then proved they were incapable of delivering. He re-org’d the company seemingly every quarter, and pissed away tens of millions on Patch, a company he was an investor in and then HuffPo. The Arrington debacle is strong evidence that the Peter Principle is alive and well in the office of the CEO at AOL.

The AOL BOD has been asleep during all of this tumult and should have fired Armstrong last year.

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