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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 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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Network Social Thinking
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
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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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Distribute Mean Say Sound
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
Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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Like Refreshing Running You
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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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario
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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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
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
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake

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