?Windows is the past. In the future, AOL is the next Microsoft.?
? Steve Case (1999)
Like most serious writers, I?ve always dreamed of working for AOL. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when Heather and Mike took to the stage during Disrupt, alongside AOL Chairman Tim Armstrong, to announce that TechCrunch has been acquired by the 90s chat-room giant. You can also imagine how relieved I was to hear that our new corporate ownership wouldn?t affect our editorial independence. A fact reiterated in the press release that Mike allowed Armstrong to publish under his new byline on our homepage. The real meat of the deal was explained to TechCrunch employees and contributors yesterday, in our first ever ?all hands? meeting, hosted by David Eun, President of AOL Media and Studios. In an act of Mike-Judgeian corporate defiance, Mike published the full agenda ahead of the meeting, leaving us to salivate at highlights like ?HR to hand out offer letters / AOL gifts.? (to clarify: these were very separate items) and the time set aside for ?administrative happiness?. The rest of the meeting, though, was designated as an ?internal AOL meeting? and as such was strictly off the record. However, after giving that warning, the very next thing that Eun said was that we should all ?keep doing what we do?. Here then are the details of the meeting...
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