Name: Steve Case

Born: August 21, 1958, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

  • American businessman best known as the co-founder, former CEO, and chairman of AOL.

Honors and awards

  • Inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame (2009).
  • Appointed as a Citizen Regent of the Smithsonian Institution (2011).

Quotes

“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.”

“All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.”

Website

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