Gerald Levin, Time-
Warner's chairman and chief executive
Gerald M. Levin 1939: Born 1960: Graduates Phi Beta Kappa from Haverford College 1963: Receives law degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School
1963 - 1967: Attorney with the New York City firm of Simpson Thacher
& Bartlett 1972: Started at Time, Inc. in 1972 when Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO)
the company's pay-cable
subsidiary, was in its developmental phase, and served as HBO's vice
president of programming 1973: Named HBO president and chief executive officer 1975: Makes the decision to distribute HBO via satellite, helping to
launch the cable industry 1976: Promoted to chairman 1984: Becomes Time Inc.'s chief strategist when he's named executive
vice president 1988: Elected vice chairman 1990: Time Inc. merges with Warner Communications Inc; Levin became
chief
operating officer and vice chairman of the new company 1992: Named CEO of Time Warner 2000: AOL merges with Time Warner
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Steve Case, chairman
and chief executive of America Online
Stephen M. Case 1958: Born in Honolulu, Hawaii 1977: Attends Williams College in Massachusetts, majors in political
science 1980: Marketing for Procter & Gamble 1983: Case hired by Control Video Corp., a start up delivering Atari
video games to PCs 1985: Control Video renamed Quantum Computer Services, an early ISP
for Commodore 64
computers. Case makes similar deals with Apple, Tandy and IBM 1991: Quantum became America Online; 156,549 members and Case is
named president and CEO 1992: Initial public offering raises $66 million 1993: Case refuses acquisition attempts by Microsoft and Bill Gates.
AOL earns $4.2 million on
$40 million in revenues 1995: Joint venture with German media conglomerate for international
expansion 1996: AOL becomes undisputed leader in online services. Makes deal
with Microsoft to
mutually include the other's software in customer offerings 1997: AOL purchases former competitor CompuServe. Launches online
services in Japan 1998: AOL has more than 6,000 employees and more than 11 million
members. Projected
profit of $110 million on $1.4 billion in revenues 2000: AOL merges with Time Warner
