Quote

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

Steve Case

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
Stephen McConnell Steve Case
Game
Product
Brand
Economy
Machines
Brands
Company
Market
Bringing
Games
Lessons
Lesson
Start
Build
Consumers
Hard
Products
Expensive
Focusing
World
Instead
Forth
Consumer
Learned
Video
Distribution

More quotes by Steve Case

Image
You really need to believe that you are on to something important.
Steve Case
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
Steve Case
Image
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
Steve Case
Image
Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.
Steve Case
Image
If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.
Steve Case
Image
The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
Steve Case
Image
If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
Steve Case
Image
Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.
Steve Case
Image
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
Steve Case
Image
I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd say we're doing better than we were a year ago, in terms of delivery and quality of service, but nowhere near what we should be doing .
Steve Case
Image
At AOL, we thought the killer app was people
Steve Case
Image
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
Steve Case
Image
It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.
Steve Case
Image
You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.
Steve Case
Image
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
Steve Case
Image
At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
Steve Case
Image
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
Steve Case