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Steve Case | |
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| Born | Stephen McConnell Case August 21, 1958 Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
| Political party | Independent |
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| Children | 5 |
Stephen McConnell Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). Case joined AOL's predecessor company, Quantum Computer Services, as a marketing vice-president in 1985, became CEO of the company (renamed AOL) in 1991, and, at the height of the dot-com bubble in 2000, orchestrated with Gerald M. Levin the merger that created AOL Time Warner, described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America."[1][2]
Since resigning as chairman of the company in 2003, he has launched a venture-capital firm, Revolution LLC, based in Washington, D.C., and authored The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future, which in 2016 became a New York Times bestselling book.[3] In 2022 he published his second book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream.
- ^ "Steve Case Biography". American Academy of Achievement. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Retrieved June 13, 2011.
- ^ Munk, Nina (2004). Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner. HarperBusiness. ISBN 0060540346.
- ^ "New York Times Bestsellers - Business Books - May 2016". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 October 2016.