A THIRST FOR CHANGE

摘要

The first time Kara Goldin left her job as a vice-president at AOL was in 1996, the boom years. Kara's boss quickly persuaded her to return. The second time she left, the decision stuck. It was early 2001, and Kara figured her best days at AOL were behind her: She and her team had built an online shopping business, and now she was expected to maintain it. Then there was the matter of the Time Warner merger. She wasn't eager to work for an even more bureaucratic company. "I love the idea of creating a need, of building something new," she says.