
Gerald Levin, former CEO of Time Warner, died March 13. He was 84 and had battled Parkinson’s disease.
Levin ran Time Warner when it merged with AOL in 2000, a partnership that brought together the world’s largest media company and its largest internet company in a $350 billion deal. AOL Time Warner was hatched, but the merger ended up a disaster. The dot-com bubble burst, and the marriage of traditional media and online cultures did not go smoothly.