AOL co-founder Steve Case — a serial tech entrepreneur who is still actively launching new ventures — took the stage at Business Insider’s Ignition conference Friday to discuss Web upstarts and reflect on his own battered legacy.
Business Insider editor-in-chief Henry Blodget, who moderated the discussion with Case, asked him what it feels like to look [...]
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Steve Case looks back at AOL
December 4th, 2010 by Financial Writer
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more...A year when even the boss’ job wasn’t safe
December 23rd, 2009 by Financial Writer
Of the 4.3 million Americans who lost their jobs this year, unemployed CEOs may deserve the least public sympathy. Many of them ran companies that took federal aid. Others made a fortune when they sold their companies. One may have mishandled data that was tied to his company’s most promising product.
But as we look back [...]
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Bass Pro CEO Morris brings passion for fishing to job
September 30th, 2009 by Financial Writer
Bass Pro Shops is “what most retailers only fantasize about,” said Ethan Allen CEO Farooq Kathwari when he introduced Bass Pro CEO Johnny Morris at an awards ceremony last year.
But try to get the details of the dream out of Morris, and you’ll find he’s conveniently “gone fishing.”
That may say as much about his love [...]
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