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Steve Case
Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman, Revolution; Chairman, Case Foundation
Steve Case is co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Revolution, an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build “built-to-last” businesses, and chairman of the Case Foundation, which he established with his wife, Jean, in 1997. He co-founded America Online in 1985 and became its CEO and chairman, retiring as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003. Case was founding chair of the Startup America Partnership, a White House effort to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship, and a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, chairing the entrepreneurship subcommittee. He authored the New York Times best-seller, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future.
Previously
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Entrepreneur Steve Case and "Hillbilly Elegy" author-turned-venture-capitalist J. D. Vance have taken their investment mission on a bus tour they’re calling “Rise of the Rest....
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How do we ensure that everyone in society benefits from economic growth? How do we narrow income disparities between the topmost earners and everyone else, such that we crea...
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Some suggest we are well into a fourth industrial revolution — a time of significant and fundamental shifts in the ways we create, manufacture, and consume goods and services....
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In his remarkable book, The Third Wave, AOL founder and tech leader Steve Case describes how we are moving beyond the internet as a communications tool to an era where it will...
Resources
Why Startups Are Thriving Outside Silicon Valley