People first. Technology second.
BIZ STONETiming, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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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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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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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 think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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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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