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Random Photo by CNN

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

CNN - The Case News Network that is. Steve Case clicked this photo last night at the Caps game of me and Pat Sajak as I opened a carton of my books as provided to me as a surprise by our publisher. Steve Case, by the way, has 300K+ people following him on Twitter now.

How random is all this? My book shows up game time with the Capstronaut in the house and Pat Sajak dropping by to say “hello”! I am happy as can be. :-)

Mr. Subliminal

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Dan Case was a great man. He was known as ”Upper Case.”

Steve Case, co-founder of America Online and Dan’s brother, had a nick name and it was “lower case.”

The new aol is all about the lower case. I find that ironically funny.

Check out this Advertising Age story.

Cool Photo

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Click here to see a cool photo. I am honored to be photographed with Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL; Steve Case, founder of AOL; Martha Stewart and Warren Buffet. It was great to see so many friends back on the AOL Campus at Friday’s All Hands meeting. Keep the faith.

Virginia Business

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Here is a nice story on Revolution, Steve Case and with mentions of me. I am proud of my work with Steve in the past and with these new start-ups. We are committed to building great companies that support our local economy. We also want to build franchises that do well by doing good. See mentions on the theory of a “double bottom” line within.

Plan B

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This one is funny from All Things Digital. I was once in a meeting with Steve Case at AOL where we offered Jerry Yang and David Filo $2 million to acquire Yahoo as they had to leave the confines of Stanford University. They turned us down too. :-)

Great Game and White Out

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I went to the Wizards playoff game last night with Steve Case, Donn Davis and General Colin Powell. We all sat in the dream seats right on the floor next to the Wizards bench. It was a great environment and the team held a white out. They put white t-shirts on every single seat in the arena. It was a very cool sight to behold when you first walked into the game.

I spent some time with Mr. and Mrs. Pollin before the game started. Abe told me he thought the Wizards would come out strong and play good team basketball to get back into the series and he was right. The Wizards won big time!

When we play unselfish team basketball; rebound; and go to the hoop to draw fouls, the Wizards are as good as any team in the East.

It is clear that Gilbert Arenas is still recovering from his surgeries and that he is a great teammate. He was on the bench extolling his teammates on after he left the game with a small ding in his leg. Also, it was fun to watch LeBron James come down the court and stop and shake General Powell’s hand while the game was still going on.

I was also very humbled by the number of people that came up to me during the game to say “Great season!” and “Thanks for building such a fun team to watch!” Thank you so much.