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Steve Case

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I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.


— Steve Case


#get #i #i think #million #next

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.


— Steve Case


#aol #belief #day #everybody #going

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.


— Steve Case


#hawaii #honolulu #i #i was born #raised

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.


— Steve Case


#amount #did #generally #getting #good

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.


— Steve Case


#counselor #father #later #lawyer #mom

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.


— Steve Case


#home #make #network #nobody #should

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.


— Steve Case


#biggest challenges #challenges #computers #decade #first

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.


— Steve Case


#come #could #degree #i #i think

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.


— Steve Case


#critical #did #five #partnerships #strategic

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.


— Steve Case


#catch #caught #estate #idea #just






About Steve Case






Did you know about Steve Case?

Kimsey groomed Case to become chairman and CEO when Kimsey retired and the transition formally took place in 1991 (CEO) and 1995 (chairman). Case later joined the company as a full-time marketing employee. As part of the changes that gave birth to Quantum Case changed the company's strategy creating an online service called Quantum Link (Q-Link for short) for the Commodore 64 in 1985 with programmer (and AOL co-founder) Marc Seriff.

In early 2011 he was selected by President Barack Obama to serve as Chairman of the Startup America Partnership and named to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. In addition he serves as chair of the Case Foundation run by his wife Jean Case. Since his retirement as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003 he has gone on to build a variety of new businesses through his investment company Revolution.

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