A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
BIZ STONEI 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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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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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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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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Embrace your constraints.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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