I met Jack Dorsey in South Park, and all I got was this blog post

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> It was a different time in the Valley back then, and Williams ended up selling Blogger for a paltry sum of $10s of millions to the only company with any resources in 2003 — Google.

So AOL was past its peak by then but it still had boatloads of dial-up revenue coming in at 2003. Hell it still does http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/aol-revenue-is-up-stil...

That's true, but the valuations on deals were much lower after the dot com crash and 9/11. Flickr I think went for less than $100million at about the same time, and it was the Instagram of its day.

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