{"id":57,"date":"2005-12-11T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-26T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T01:36:47","slug":"millionares-leaving-well-enough-alone-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Millionares leaving well enough alone? Never&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=57\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">from  <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\">Om Malik<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I saw the news article too; Steve Case trying to sell the idea of breaking up Time Warner AOL into 4 or 5 pieces. Having seen the same move made on a smaller level (the purchase\/sale\/merger) in where the larger company ends up holding the bag and not getting what they thought they bought, it seems like a brilliant ripoff that doesn&#8217;t care what happens to the company, the people and the customers. You have to hope that karma gets these kind of guys and what&#8217;s left of their kind of &#8220;successful&#8221; business.<br \/>\nOm Malik once again takes this story and gives his thoughts on how binding the parts together to make a single strong effort would make better sense&#8230;<span style=\"font-style: italic\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2005\/12\/10\/et-tu-steve-case\/\">Et Tu Steve Case?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if don&#8217;t listent to Om&#8217;s podcast about tech with Niall Kennedy, you should.<br \/>\nIf you enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/gillmorgang.podshow.com\/\">Gilmor Gang<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/\">TWIT<\/a>, it&#8217;s right up that alley with a focus on broadband based things&#8230;<br \/>\nThe feed can be found<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ONPodSessions\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Om Malik: I saw the news article too; Steve Case trying to sell the idea of breaking up Time Warner AOL into 4 or 5 pieces. Having seen the same move made on a smaller level (the purchase\/sale\/merger) in where the larger company ends up holding the bag and not getting what they thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}