America Online founder Steve Case said in a Washington Post article that Time Warner should be split into several different companies. Case said other solutions the company has been reported to be considering, including possible joint ventures between AOL and Microsoft or Google, would be insufficient. Case was an architect of the merger of AOL and Time Warner and served as chairman of the merged company until 2003. He stepped down as a board member in October, but still holds more than $250 million of Time Warner stock.