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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Interesting Pedestal Way
A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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Contains Information Links News Simple
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 think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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Ideas Mean Thinking
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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
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
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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

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