Stephen McConnell Case was born on August 21,1958 and is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online.
30 Facts About Steve Case
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Steve Case was born and grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Carol and Daniel Case.
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Steve Case graduated from the private Punahou School and attended Central Union Church.
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Steve Case graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1980 with a degree in political science.
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Steve Case was marketing a service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console that allowed users to download games via a phone line and modem.
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Steve Case later joined the company as a full-time marketing employee.
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Kimsey groomed Steve Case to become chairman and CEO when Kimsey retired, and the transition formally took place in 1991 and 1995.
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Steve Case announced his resignation as chairman in January 2003, although he remained on the company's board of directors for almost three more years.
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Steve Case resigned from the Time-Warner board of directors in October 2005, to spend more time working on Revolution LLC, a DC-based investment firm he founded in April 2005.
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Steve Case is chairman of the Case Foundation, which he and his wife Jean Case created in 1997.
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In 1999, Steve Case received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Steve Case's award was presented by Awards Council member Jim Kimsey.
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Steve Case was inducted into the Junior Achievement US Business Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Steve Case was a co-chair of the Democracy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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In May 2014, Steve Case received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Georgetown University.
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Additionally, Steve Case recognized another successful exit when Towers Watson acquired early exchange pioneer Extend Health for $435 million in May, 2012.
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In 2017, Steve Case launched the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, investing in companies outside of San Francisco, New York and Boston.
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Steve Case has invested directly in other companies, such as Kenyan solar provider M-kopa.
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Steve Case wrote The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future in 2016.
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Steve Case calls the new era the "Third Wave" of the internet.
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Steve Case says we're entering the "Third Wave," a period when entrepreneurs will leverage technologies to finally disrupt "real world" sectors like health, education, transportation, and energy - and in the process change the way people live their daily lives.
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Steve Case is an avid advocate for comprehensive immigration reform, arguing that easing restraints on immigration is necessary for America's future entrepreneurial economy.
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Steve Case particularly emphasizes the impact that reform would have on recent engineering graduates and the tech sector.
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Steve Case contends that making it easier for foreign students educated in America to stay post graduation is vital to winning the war for talent, given the sheer high demand for engineers and entrepreneurs and current visa rules preventing tech companies from hiring the best foreign talent.
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Steve Case argues not only for reforming the H-1B visa program, but implementing a Startup Visa program that welcomes immigrant entrepreneurs with proven ideas to launch their startups in the United States.
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Steve Case traditionally has avoided politics, quietly building nonpartisan relationships with both Democrats and Republicans.
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Steve Case's parents had three other children: Carin, Dan and Jeff.
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Steve Case is a cousin of Ed Steve Case, who served as a Hawaii congressman from 2002 through 2007 and since 2019.
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In 1985, Steve Case married Joanne Barker whom he had met while attending Williams College.
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Steve Case donated $10 million to Punahou School to build a junior high school named after his parents.