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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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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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People first. Technology second.
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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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