Constraint inspires creativity
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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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