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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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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.
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Contains Information Links News Simple
I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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Age Care Curious Writing
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
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 thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
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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Designed Director Guy PIcked Wanted
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
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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Network Social Thinking
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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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Impact Person Sales Years

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