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They 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?”

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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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Belief Failing Faith Personal
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
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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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
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 Design Perfect
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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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Network Social Thinking
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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Communication Moving Real
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
If people are passionate about your product, whether it’s because they’re hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.
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Hate Passionate People Product Scenario

They 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?”

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