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.
BIZ STONEWe 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.
BIZ STONEI haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
BIZ STONEYou 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.
BIZ STONEHave confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
BIZ STONESo 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.
BIZ STONEI’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
BIZ STONEWhen 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.
BIZ STONEI 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.
BIZ STONEPositive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
BIZ STONEThe future of marketing is philanthropy.
BIZ STONEI’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
BIZ STONEI was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
BIZ STONEI thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
BIZ STONECreativity comes from constraint.
BIZ STONEThey 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?”
BIZ STONEI 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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