Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
BIZ STONEYou curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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 didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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