Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.
Steve CaseIf you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.
Steve CaseThe resources you happen to accumulate, what do you do with them? You can spend the money and buy some houses or whatever, and people do some of that and that's fine. You can give the money to other people, your family, but usually when you do that you screw them up and it ends up counterproductive. Or, you take those resources and reinvest them in things that you believe in, and that could be reinvesting in a philanthropic cause.
Steve CaseSo my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
Steve CaseI continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness
Steve CaseI do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the traditional way. Maybe there's new ways to give back and make a contribution. I'm looking forward to some mix of philanthropy - maybe through a somewhat different prism - as well as helping entrepreneurs build some significant new businesses.
Steve Case