The Third Wave, Steve Case
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The Third Wave
An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

Bestseller

Author: Steve Case

Narrator: Steve Case

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2016


Synopsis

The cofounder of America Online and the Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship shares a roadmap to success for future innovators.Steve Case was on the leading edge of the Internet revolution when he cofounded AOL in 1991. He was an entrepreneur in a business that hadn’t even been invented, yet he saw how significantly his efforts could change not only America, but the world. In The Third Wave, Case uses his insights garnered from nearly four decades of working as an innovator, investor, and businessperson to chart a path for future visionaries. From his position as an investor in startups like Zipcar and LivingSocial, Case predicts the future of the economy and describes what he calls the “Third Wave of the Internet.” AOL and other companies introduced early consumers to the Internet in the first wave; search giants such as Google and companies such as Apple have led us into the second wave, the app economy; and the third wave will be “the Internet of things,” in which every experience, product, and service will be transacted online. Using his own experience, and examples from companies he’s invested in, he lays out a vision for the future of success in a disrupted age.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by eric on 2016-05-03 15:23:20

The book was NOT about the third wave, no real theory to grasp. BUT, a fun book for us who remember the Commodore 64, Q-Link, Prodigy and Compuserve. Many of which the author started before AOL. It should be renamed a history book. For that, it's interesting.