The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
BIZ STONEIf 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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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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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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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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