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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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Country Giving Technology
I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Break Couple Days Hyperconnected
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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Impact Person Sales Years
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort

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