The #1 New York Times and Wall structure Street Journal bestseller from Steve Case-the co-founder of AOL-presents “a compelling roadmap for the future…that might help us seem sensible from the technological changes reshaping our economy and the world. A fascinating read” (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and founder of LeanIn.org).

Steve Case-a pioneer who made the Internet element of everyday life-was in the leading edge of the revolution in 1985 when he co-founded AOL, the first Internet company to visit public as well as the about THE 3RD Influx: An Entrepreneur’s Eyesight of the Future most successful business from the 1990s. Back then Case was a business owner in an market that hadn’t actually been invented yet, but he had a sense how dramatically the Internet would transform business and culture. In THE 3RD Influx, he uses his insights garnered from almost four decades of working as an innovator, investor, and businessman to claim the need for entrepreneurship also to chart a route for potential innovators.

We are entering, as Case explains, the “Third Wave” of the web. The first wave saw AOL and others lay the building blocks for consumers for connecting to the web. The second wave saw businesses like Google and Facebook build on top of the Internet to generate search and social networking features, while apps like Snapchat and Instagram leveraged the smartphone trend. Now, Case argues, we’re getting into the Third Wave: an interval in which entrepreneurs will vastly transform major “real life” sectors such as health, education, transport, energy, and food-and in the process change just how we live our daily lives.

Part memoir, component manifesto, and component playbook for the future, The Third Wave explains the ways that newly emerging technology businesses must rethink their romantic relationships with customers, with rivals, and with government authorities; and offers guidance for how entrepreneurs can make earning business decisions and strategies-and how all of us can make sense of the ever-changing digital age.