Editing Steve Case (section)

{{Short description|Businessman and former CEO of AOL}}
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|name        = Steve Case
|image       = Steve Case at Strictly VC event in 2024 (cropped).jpg
|caption     = Case in 2024
|alt = head and shoulders crop of Case wearing light blue shirt and navy suit jacket, holding a microphone and facing audience
|birthname   = Stephen McConnell Case 
|birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1958|8|21}}
|birth_place = [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii Territory]], U.S.
|death_date  = 
|death_place = 
|party       = [[Independent (voter)|Independent]]
|spouse      = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Joanne Barker|1985|1996|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Jean Case|Jean Villanueva]]|1998}}
}}
|children    = 5
|alma_mater  = [[Williams College]]
}}

'''Stephen McConnell Case''' (born August 21, 1958) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of [[America Online]] (AOL).  Case joined AOL's predecessor company, [[Quantum Computer Services]], as a marketing vice-president in 1985, became CEO of the company (renamed AOL) in 1991, and, at the height of the [[dot-com bubble]] in 2000, orchestrated with [[Gerald M. Levin]] the merger that created AOL Time Warner, described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America."<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/cas1bio-1|title= Steve Case Biography|publisher= American Academy of Achievement|access-date= June 13, 2011|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111004143401/http://achievement.org/autodoc/page/cas1bio-1|archive-date= October 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/foolsrushinsteve00munk|url-access=registration|title=Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner|last=Munk|first=Nina|date=2004|publisher=HarperBusiness|isbn=0060540346}}<!--|access-date=1 July 2022 --></ref>

Since resigning as chairman of the company in 2003, he has launched a [[Venture capital|venture-capital firm]], [[Revolution LLC]], based in Washington, D.C., and authored ''The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future'', which in 2016 became a ''New York Times'' bestselling book.<ref>{{cite news|title=New York Times Bestsellers - Business Books - May 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/05/15/business-books/?_r=0|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 25, 2016}}</ref> In 2022 he published his second book, ''The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream''.