Being Too Early is as Dangerous as Being Too Late

Former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin thinks the AOL-Huffington Post deal ironically fulfills the vision Time Warner originally had for merging AOL with Time Warner.

"Time Warner was basically a content distribution company and AOL was a digital service company and putting the two together was intended to put an Internet injection into Time Warner," he says. "It didn’t exactly work out that way, but the intention was really significant."

But he thinks, a decade later, that the strategy will work, or at least has a reasonable chance of working, where the Time Warner merger with AOL is widely viewed to have been a failure. Being too early is as dangerous as being too late.

Former Time Warner CEO on “delicious ironies” of AOL-HuffPo Merger