Earlier in her career, Jean Case was on the executive track at General Electric when she made a big leap -- into tech. She rose to be a senior executive at AOL in the 1990s. Later, she and her husband Steve founded the Case Foundation, which she now runs.

She speaks with Anna about taking risks, learning from failure, and how the culture at tech startups was different some 25 years ago.

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