You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
From Steve Case
So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.
There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.
When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.
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