I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
BIZ STONEI 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.
More Biz Stone Quotes
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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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The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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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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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Embrace your constraints.
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You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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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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