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Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Chief Executive Officer
Entrepreneur
Honolulu
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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.
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You really need to believe that you are on to something important.
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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
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All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
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Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
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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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In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.
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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
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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.
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There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
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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.
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The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.
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Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
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I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
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For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.
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At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
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One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible
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The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate
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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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