So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
BIZ STONEI 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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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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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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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Embrace your constraints.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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