American - Businessman | August 21, 1958 -
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
Steve Case
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If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
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You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
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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.
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Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.
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And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.
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There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
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Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.
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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.
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So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.
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So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
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