Steve Case Quotes

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Steve Case

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 21, 1958

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

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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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.

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I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

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I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.

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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

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I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

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From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

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Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.

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But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen.

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Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

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And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.

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We don't want to turn the TV into a computer.

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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.

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I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.

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