Steve Case: Former CEO of AOL and Founder of Revolution LLC

About Steve Case: Former CEO of AOL and Founder of Revolution LLC

Stephen McConnell Case (born August 21, 1958, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). He joined AOL's predecessor, Quantum Computer Services, as a marketing vice-president in 1985 and became CEO in 1991, when the company was renamed AOL. At the height of the dot-com bubble in 2000 he orchestrated, with Gerald M. Levin, the merger that created AOL Time Warner, described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America." Since resigning as chairman in 2003 Case has launched the Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm Revolution LLC and authored The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future, a 2016 New York Times bestseller, and in 2022 The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream. Case was born and grew up in Honolulu, the son of Carol and Daniel Case, graduated from the private Punahou School in 1976 and earned a political science degree from Williams College in 1980. He then spent two years as an assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati before joining Pizza Hut in 1982. Sources: English Wikipedia (Steve Case, accessed September 2026).

Basic Information

Co-founder and CEO, Revolution LLC; former CEO and chairman, AOL

Company Details

Revolution LLC / AOL

Venture Capital, Internet Services

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