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There are lots of cycles to markets - boom and bust - and also in perceptions of people. The conventional wisdom of Steve Case as genius or fool was highly cyclical. The truth was always in the middle.

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Steve Case
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 21
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Honolulu
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In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
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I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
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