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Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
Businessperson
Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
Hawaii
Stephen McConnell Steve Case
Fortune
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Risk
Company
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Mitigation
Disruption

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So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
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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.
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