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Steve Case: 75% of US venture capital goes to three states
“In the United States last year, according to the NVCA that tracks us, 75% of venture capital went to three states. You know, California, New York, and Massachusetts, 50%. Half of America's venture capital went to one state. California.”
Case: AOL went public at a $70M valuation before peaking at $160B
“We were the first internet company to go public in the 1992. We raised ten million dollars in our IPO. The market value that day was seventy million dollars. And seven, eight years later, when we were negotiating the merger with Time Warner, it had gone from s…”
Steve Case: Over 95% of Silicon Valley TechCrunch audience moved from elsewhere
“I was speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in Silicon Valley a couple of months ago, and I don't know, there may be a 1015 hundred people in the audience. I said, I want to see a show of hands. How many of you are from the Bay Area? And it was less than f…”
Case: Only 3% of people were online averaging 1 hour weekly in 1985
“We started only three percent of people were online, and those three percent were online an hour a week on average, so it was pretty early, and I spent the next 15 or so years building that company, and then when we merged AOL with Time Warner, I stepped down …”