Embrace your constraints.
BIZ STONEPeople 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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When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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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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We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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