Steve Case (AOL, Revolution) - People, Passion, Perseverance: You've Got Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

People, passion, perseverance. Former AOL CEO and Chairman Steve Case describes these words as the bedrock of successful entrepreneurship. Heading into what may be a "golden era of entrepreneurship," he says that he relies on the "three p's" as assessment tools to help guide his direction and goals. When all of the three parts are in balance, an entrepreneur can achieve success like that of AOL; when they aren't, you get the failure of the AOL-Time Warner merger.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.5	All right, so I'm going to minimize with all that introductory talk, I'm going to minimize
0:23.6	the introduction to Steve Case, because you've heard him before?
0:26.6	Yeah, he's chairman and CEO of Revolution Partners Now, but before that he had another gig called AOL.
0:34.6	That really was the precursor to the internet. A tremendous icon in computing and online services
0:42.3	and just technology here in the United States and around the world.
0:46.3	His bio is up on the site like we always do,
0:49.3	and he has a great philanthropic background.
0:52.3	But without further ado, because he's come so far to be with us from Washington, D.C.
0:57.0	Let's welcome Steve Case.
1:02.0	Good afternoon.
1:05.4	It's good to see all of you here on the Stanford campus, and Entrepreneurship Week is terrific.
1:10.9	I'm also here for Stanford Parents Weekend.
1:13.3	I have a freshman who happens to be the audience,
1:15.1	but I'm not going to call her out and embarrass her.
1:17.3	But I would like to get started by having everybody stand up
1:19.8	for just a minute.
1:21.3	Just make sure you're awake.
1:22.4	You can do this.
1:23.7	I'm going to take a little picture of you here.
1:27.1	Yeah, I am.
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