Steve Case
Chairman & CEO, Revolution. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Steve Case is the Chairman and CEO of investment firm Revolution. He previously co-founded America Online and led the company as its CEO and Chairman.
3shows
4appearances
42statements
24resolved
15supported
1contradicted
63%fully supported
13said about them ↓ Everything Steve Case said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Case: Senators and governors use Dignity Index to score rhetoric
“Some politicians now, including a number of senators and governors are using that to make sure their communications are scored in a way that it, it's more, Trying to build that common ground, trying to build that consensus, not this hot rhetoric that, that may…”
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…”
Steve Case: First-time board members should listen more than speak
“Spend more time listening than talking and just trying to really understand the dynamics of the board, some of the challenges and opportunities of the company, and be more surgical in terms of ways you intervene.”
Case: Control Video Corporation laid off 70-80% after 1983 failure
“When they launched the product in the fall of 1983, it basically failed, and so suddenly this company was in free fall. So this was my first experience, you know, a few months after I was there, I was Kind of on teetering on bankruptcy. Had to lay off 70, 80% …”
Case: IBM, Sears, and CBS Committed $1B to Prodigy
“There was one in particular called Prodigy that IBM and Sears and for a while, CBS, committed about a billion dollars to launch Prodigy.”
Case: Only 3% of Americans Were Online in Mid-1980s
“About three percent of America was online an average of one hour a week.”
Case: Apple paid millions to buy out brand license, prompting AOL rebrand
“It was, I think, the first time Apple licensed their brand to another company, and indeed, not long after, within the first year of launching the Apple Inc. Service, Apple basically decided they didn't like the idea of, you know, they wish they hadn't licensed…”
Steve Case: AOL Was the First Internet Company to IPO
“But when we went public, took AOL public in 1992, it was the first internet company to go public, and we had less than 200,000 customers.”
Case: AOL board removed him as CEO for being too young
“When we decided in the United States to go public, the board decided I was too young to be CEO.”
Steve Case: 'You've Got Mail' was recorded overnight on a cassette tape
“A woman there basically said, well, my husband does voiceover kind of thing, so he'd be happy to tape some messages, and so I, you know, got my little pen down, little post-it note, and wrote a bunch of different things, like, you've got mail, and that guy, El…”
Steve Case: AOL 1996 23-Hour Outage Became Major National News
“I think the year was 1996, and we had moved to unlimited pricing, and we had system problems, or our system actually was down for 23 hours, nobody could log in, and it was a national news story. It led the network TV news, was the lead article in most newspape…”
Case: AOL board narrowly voted against selling to Microsoft
“So it came down to a close vote, but eventually the board decided not to sell to Microsoft.”
Case: Merged AOL Time Warner Reached $40B Revenue and $10B Profit
“We went from our company when we did the merge, I think it was five billion of revenue, about one billion of profit. The combined company had forty billion of revenue, ten billion of profit.”
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 …”
Steve Case: Early online access cost about $10 per hour
“It was kind of expensive to get online, about 10 dollars an hour.”
Case: Control Video's GameLine was like Netflix for Atari games
“The company was called Control Video Corporation. They had a product called GameLine, which at the time was almost like Netflix for video games. Back then, most people didn't have PCs, but a lot of people had Atari game machines. And so GameLine allowed you to…”
Steve Case: AOL built early private-label online services for Commodore, IBM, Apple
“We created something called Q-Link for Commodore. We created something called PC-Link for RadioShack. We created something called Promenade for IBM. We created something called Apple-Link for Apple.”
The other half of the tape: Steve Case's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 13 times in 4 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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2022 4 mentions in 1 episode
2020 7 mentions in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Steve's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Chairman & CEO, Revolution | 2 | 25 | 78% 14/18 | full record on How I Built This → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Chairman & CEO, Revolution | 1 | 12 | 0% 0/3 | full record on 20VC → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Chairman & CEO, Revolution | 1 | 5 | 33% 1/3 | full record on Masters of Scale → |