72 Hours: Inside Arianna’s Mission To Change AOL | paidContent

72 Hours: Inside Arianna’s Mission To Change AOL | paidContent: "The merger of AOL and The Huffington Post is a month away at best but to Tim Armstrong, it’s all about the first 72 hours. “Mergers work and don’t work in 72 hours of the deal. Full stop. That’s what happens. If the visions aren’t aligned and the personalities don’t align, they don’t work. I can go through history and point out every merger that didn’t work and there’s some set of stories. If you talk to the AOL - Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) people, which I have, and you hear the first 10 stories of the deal, you just knew it wasn’t going to work out.”"