Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
BIZ STONEWe can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering 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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about 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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I 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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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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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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I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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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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