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Steve Case on Miami, Biden & J.D. Vance

A decade ago, the AOL co-founder began sounding the alarm about too much tech money being focused in Silicon Valley. Was Miami really what he had in mind? And does he regret choosing a right-winger like Vance to be his front man?

AOL co-founder Steve Case.
AOL co-founder Steve Case. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Theodore Schleifer
October 5, 2022

A few months ago, a Democratic source wrote to me with a clever story idea. I mostly write about the new generation of Silicon Valley wealth—people in their 30s and 40s who made their fortune in Web 2.0 or now 3.0, and how they are deploying their money into politics and philanthropy. But maybe these newbies could learn something meaningful from an old hand with more influence than any of them, a truly seminal figure from Web 1.0 who seems, on paper at least, to be a king of Washington.