We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
BIZ STONEWe can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
BIZ STONEWhat 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.
BIZ STONEI 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.
BIZ STONEPeople first. Technology second.
BIZ STONEThey picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
BIZ STONEYou 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.
BIZ STONEWe 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.
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?
BIZ STONEBoth my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
BIZ STONEThe normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
BIZ STONEThe future of marketing is philanthropy.
BIZ STONEWe 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.
BIZ STONESo 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 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.
BIZ STONEInventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
BIZ STONEWe realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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