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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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People Running Technology
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
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
I 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.
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Ideas Mean Thinking
People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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Clip iPhone Mean People Watch
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It’s much more interesting that way.
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Interesting Pedestal Way
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
You 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.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
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
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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Answers Mind Open
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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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
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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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
What 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.
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Country Giving Technology
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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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
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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Newspaper People Thinking Trouble Writing
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Brave Chance People Regimes Stars Take
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way

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