Steve Case

@Entrepreneurs, Life Achievements and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Steve Case is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of recent times, and is credited with the innovation of social media Hawaii Billionaires American Williams College Business People Leo Celebrities Steve Case is a renowned name in the world of business and his career is considered a good example of entrepreneurship. Steve had a good business sense since childhood and even started a juice centre when he was only six years old. He graduated with political science as his subject and soon after got employed with the big brand ‘Procter & Gamble’, where he continued for a couple of years and then shifted to ‘Pizza Hut Inc.’ His employment in all these companies helped him enhance his innate marketing skills. Steve’s meeting with investor Bill von Meister proved to be valuable as it paved his way to the yet to be established company ‘Quantum Computer Services’. Bill employed the entrepreneur on a part time basis in his company ‘Control Vido Corporation. However, the new owner of the company, Jim Kimsey gauged the true worth of Case and gave him a permanent job in his company. Jim polished his marketing talent and owing to Case’s innovative thinking and marketing knowledge, even chose the latter to be successor. As the head of the company ‘Quantum Computer Services’, Steve gave new dimensions to social mass media and is instrumental in ushering in changes in the mode of online communication

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Birthday: August 21, 1958 Nationality: American Famous: Entrepreneurs, Billionaires, Williams College, Business People City/State: Hawaii Spouses: Jean Case Siblings: Carin, Dan, Jeff Known as: Stephen M. Case, Stephen McConnell Case Information Detail Birthday August 21, 1958 Nationality American Famous Entrepreneurs, Billionaires, Williams College, Business People City/State Hawaii Spouses Jean Case Siblings Carin, Dan, Jeff Known as Stephen M. Case, Stephen McConnell Case Universities Williams College Williams College Punahou School Humanitarian Works Co-founder of ‘Case Foundation’ Notable Alumnis Williams College Founder / Co-Founder AOL Revolution LLC Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Case Foundation Revolution Health Group Birth Place Honolulu Gender Male Father Daniel H. Case Mother Carol Net Worth $1.37 billion as of Sun Sign Leo Born in Honolulu Famous as Entrepreneur

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Steve married Joanne Barker in 1985 and the couple later became parents to three children. Unsplash Personal Life

However, in 1996, he and Barker decided to part ways. Two years later, he married his associate at ‘AOL’, named Jean Villanueva. Jean and Case live together with five children, all from their previous marriages. Unsplash Personal Life

The businessman also chairs the charitable organization named ‘Case Foundation’, which was established by him and his wife. Unsplash Personal Life

Case was born to Daniel Hebard Case and Carol (Holmes) on 21st August, 1958, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the third among the four children born to his parents. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

When he was six years old, the lad along with his brother started a juice centre together and eventually founded a firm known as ‘Case Enterprises’. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Steve received his primary education from the ‘Punahou School’ and then, in 1980, he completed his graduation from ‘Williams College’, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with a degree in political science. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After his graduation, Case got employed with the company ‘Procter & Gamble’ in Cincinnati, Ohio as an assistant brands manager. He worked there for two years, and in 1982, he shifted to ‘Pizza Hut Inc.’ situated in Wichita, Kansas where he was designated as the manager of new pizza marketing. Unsplash Career

The following year, he got acquainted to the CEO of the company ‘Control Video Corporation’, Bill von Meister, through his brother Dan. Steve was chosen as a marketing consultant of the new project called ‘GameLine’, an off-shoot of the video game console brand called ‘Atari 2600’. Unsplash Career

However, after the company was taken over by investor Frank Caufield, Case was hired as a permanent marketing employee. Unsplash Career

Entrepreneur Jim Kimsey established the company ‘Quantum Computer Services’ in 1985 and appointed Case as the vice president of marketing. Unsplash Career

In 1987, Kimsey chose the young man as the executive vice president and eventually, Jim became his mentor who trained him in such a way that after the CEO retired from his office, Case was capable enough to be promoted to the position of the new Chairperson and CEO of the company. Unsplash Career

He is the co-founder of the mass media company ‘AOL’ (America Online), which has been the first of its kind in social media. Steve, as the head of the ‘Quantum Computer Services’ (as it was previously known), revamped the company, naming it ‘America Online’ and bringing in a new approach towards mass communication. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	August 21, 1958
Nationality	American
Famous	Entrepreneurs, Billionaires, Williams College, Business People
City/State	Hawaii
Spouses	Jean Case
Siblings	Carin, Dan, Jeff
Known as	Stephen M. Case, Stephen McConnell Case
Universities	Williams College Williams College Punahou School
Humanitarian Works	Co-founder of ‘Case Foundation’
Notable Alumnis	Williams College
Founder / Co-Founder	AOL Revolution LLC Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Case Foundation Revolution Health Group
Birth Place	Honolulu
Gender	Male
Father	Daniel H. Case
Mother	Carol
Net Worth	$1.37 billion as of
Sun Sign	Leo
Born in	Honolulu
Famous as	Entrepreneur

Steve Case

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Aug 21, 1958

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