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This work offers a summary of the book ""AOL.COM: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web"" by Kara Swisher. This summary starts with the story of Bill Von Meister, a telecommunications entrepreneur. In his early days von Meister's career looked somewhat like an exercise in trial and error. He spotted opportunities to develop useful telecoms business models but had a series of failures before finally joining up with right man, Steve Case, and landing on the right path. The company we now call AOL was built on the shaky foundations of a d

Case, Stephen McConnell. --- Gates, Bill, 1955-. --- Von Meister, William F., 1942-1995.