Steve Case

14 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 3, 2017 by Steve Case · said 9 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Apr 3, 2017
Assertion Supported
Case: AOL raised about $5M based on expanding Apple partnership
“We just raised a bunch of money, about five million dollars, which for us was a lot of money, on the idea of expanding this Apple deal.”
Steve Case Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 11:13 AOL: Steve Case
Apr 3, 2017
Assertion Supported
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.”
Steve Case Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 13:46 AOL: Steve Case
Apr 3, 2017 positive
Insight
Steve Case: The killer app of the internet was always community
“We always believed that the killer app of the internet was people. Some thought it would be content, particularly the media companies. Some thought it would be commerce, particularly the retail companies. We thought content and commerce would be important, but…”
Steve Case Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 9:09 AOL: Steve Case
Apr 3, 2017
Assertion Partly supported
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…”
Steve Case Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 17:56 AOL: Steve Case
Apr 3, 2017
Assertion Supported
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 Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 17:07 AOL: Steve Case
Apr 3, 2017
Assertion Supported
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.”
Steve Case Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 8:32 AOL: Steve Case
Apr 3, 2017
Assertion Supported
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 Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 14:31 AOL: Steve Case
Apr 3, 2017
Assertion Supported
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 Apr 3, 2017 ▶ 10:43 AOL: Steve Case
Dec 19, 2024
Insight
Case: Tech success has shifted from product building to navigating regulation
“And the early days was, can you build it? Now it's really much more, can you commercialize it? Can you break through. And for a growing number of companies, also, can you navigate some of the policy challenges, some of the regulatory issues in areas like healt…”
Steve Case Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 4:58 Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
Dec 19, 2024
Assertion Supported
Case: When AOL started, just 3% of people were online
“When we first started only three percent of people were online, and those three percent were online an average of one hour a week.”
Steve Case Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 4:27 Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
Dec 19, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Case: Rise of the Rest Has Invested in 200 Companies Across 100 Cities
“And we started this effort a decade ago when we launched Rise of the Rest, started doing, you know, bus tours around the country, then launched investment fund, which made now 200 investments in a hundred different, different cities in what we call Rise of the…”
Steve Case Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 3:20 Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
Dec 19, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Case: In 1985, fewer than a dozen VC firms backed startups
“In the early days when we got started, and AOL was started, as you mentioned, in 1985, it was really, can you raise the money to get launched? And not that many people could. It was, there was only a handful of maybe less than a dozen venture capitalists back …”
Steve Case Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 5:33 Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
Dec 19, 2024
Assertion Supported
Case: How AOL made unlimited pricing work through the law of averages
“When we went to unlimited use, yeah, there were some people using it all the time, and we lost money on them, and some people using it infrequently, and we made money on them, so it ends up being a law of the averages”
Steve Case Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 28:44 Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
Dec 19, 2024
Insight
Case: College services must sell to guilty parents, not cash-poor students
“You can't really sell to the students, because they don't have much money, and they prioritize beer. You have to sell to the parents who are missing their kids, love their kids, and maybe feeling a little guilty about, you know, things”
Steve Case Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 18:19 Advice Line with Steve Case of AOL
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