I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
BIZ STONEI 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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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’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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.
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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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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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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I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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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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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 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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