I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
BIZ STONEI 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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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 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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Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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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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