AOL's big policy picture.(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, April, 2000 by McConnell, Bill

Anyone who thinks of George Vradenburg, the government-policy chief for America Online, as a mere Washington lobbyist, doesn't see the big picture. Certainly not the picture Vradenburg describes. And he paints a very, very dramatic picture. Compared with Vradenburg's vision, the common view of AOL--the 800-pound gorilla of Internet providers and online chat rooms and would-be master of the broadband world--is rather pedestrian.

Vradenburg sees his company at the vanguard of a worldwide technology revolution that will inevitably lead to a redistribution of wealth, to the benefit of poor nations around the globe. "Around the world, people are talking about how to create capital markets that can empower venture capitalists and start-up companies,...

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