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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
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
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
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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College Environment Needs Psychological
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
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
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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Air iPhone Macbook Scratched Two
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Communication Moving Real
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
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
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.
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Distribute Mean Say Sound
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
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
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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
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

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