My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor. Steve Case Read Quote
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. Steve Case Read Quote
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. Steve Case Read Quote
I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million. Steve Case Read Quote
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. Steve Case Read Quote
But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen. Steve Case Read Quote
When I first got started in the late ’70s, early ’80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly. Steve Case Read Quote
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles. Steve Case Read Quote
Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years. Steve Case Read Quote
Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind. Steve Case Read Quote
