Steve Case
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Stephen McConnell (born August 21, 1958) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and businessman best known as the former CEO and chairman of America Online (AOL).
Case joined AOL's predecessor company, Quantum Computer Services, as a marketing vice president and CEO of the firm (renamed AOL) in 1991.
Since his time as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he has continued to invest in early and growing-stage startups in Washington, D.C.
Revolution LLC, a venture capital firm, is based in San Francisco.
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future, Case's Case's Experience, was a New York Times best-selling book in 2016.
On May 16, 2017, Case conducted a fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC titled "Building Silicon Valley Outside of the Valley." "He supports inclusive entrepreneurship and innovation through the Rise of the Rest road trips and the Case Foundation."
Case also served as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) and was a member of Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
He also served on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE).
The chairman of UP Global, a non-profit group that was recently acquired by Techstars, was the chairman of a non-profit group aimed at building strong entrepreneurial cultures.
Life and career
Steve Case was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Carol and Daniel Case. He graduated from the private Punahou School (Class of 1976) and attended Central Union Church.
Case obtained a degree in political science from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1980. He spent two years as an assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He joined Pizza Hut Inc. in Wichita, Kansas, in 1982 as the head of new pizza sales.
Dan, his older brother, an investment banker, introduced him to Bill von Meister, CEO of Control Video Corporation in January 1983. For the Atari 2600 video game console, the company was selling GameLine, which enabled users to download games from a phone line and modem. Von Meister recruited Case as a marketing consultant after that meeting. Frank Caufield, one of the company's investors, brought in Jim Kimsey as a manufacturing consultant later this year. Case became a full-time marketer later in the company.
Jim Kimsey, a computer services firm, started Quantum Computer Services in 1985 from the remnants of Control Video's heyday. Kimsey joined Quantum Computer Services as CEO and appointed Case as vice president of marketing and vice president of marketing. He was promoted to executive vice president in 1987. When Kimsey left, Kimsey groomed Case to become chairman and CEO, but the change took place in 1991 (CEO) and 1995 (chairman).
Case modified the company's approach by launching Quantum Link (Q-Link for short) for the Commodore 64 in 1985 with programmer (and AOL co-founder) Marc Seriff. Quantum introduced AppleLink for Apple and PC Link for IBM compatible computers in 1988. He changed the company name to America Online in 1991 and combined Apple and PC services under the AOL brand; by 1994, the new service had grown to 1 million subscribers; Q-Link was decommissioned on October 21 of that year.
AOL pioneered the concept of social media, as the company's primary concern from day one was on messaging services such as chatrooms, instant messaging, and forums. In this case, it was believed that the "killer app" was a community — people living together — and that was the root of AOL's early success. Conversely, competing services of the time, such as IBM and Sears, concentrated on buying, while CompuServe concentrated on being an information service. AOL's aim was to make internet services available and available to the mass market by making them affordable, quick to use, useful, and fun. AOL charged per minute for unlimited use of basic tier services, beginning in 1996. AOL's userbase increased to ten million people in three years, eventually hitting 26.7 million users at its high point in 2002.
Case studied numerous innovative online interactive fiction titles and games, including graphical chat systems (1989), and the first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) to depict the adventure with graphics instead of text (1991).
AOL acquired Time Warner in 2001, creating one of the world's largest media, entertainment, and communications companies, after a decade of rapid growth. The $164 billion deal was completed in January 2001 but quickly fell into debt as part of the dot-com dot-com bust, which was compounded by accounting fraud. Case resigned as chairman in January 2003, but the company's board of directors continued to serve for almost three decades.
Nina Munk's book Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and AOL Time Warner's Unmaking (2005) are among the AOL-Time Warner merger's failures. Case and Time Warner's Jerry Levin embracing at the announcement of the merger appears on the front page.
"It's now my opinion that it would be best to undo the merger by splitting Time Warner into several independent businesses and encouraging AOL to start on its own path," Case wrote in The Washington Post in 2005.
Case resigned from the Time-Warner board of directors in October 2005 and decided to spend more time on Revolution LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based investment company that he founded in April 2005. More than 200 companies have invested in revolution and its related funds. Revolution has pledged to invest a significant portion of its funds outside Silicon Valley.
He and his partner Jean Case founded the Case Foundation in 1997, and he and his wife Jean Case were also chairman of the Case Foundation. The National Conference on Citizenship named Steve and Jean Case as Citizens of the Year in 2011 and interviewed by Stephanie Strom of The New York Times about their contributions and philanthropic efforts.
The American Academy of Achievement's 1999 Golden Plate Award was given to Case. Awards Council member Jim Kimsey presented his award. In 2009, the case was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame. He was named as a Citizen Regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 2011, and in 2020 he became the Regents Chair. Case was co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Democracy Project. Case received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities Letter from Georgetown University in May 2014.