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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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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they’ll prove it to you every single day.
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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
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
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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Fall Graduation Inspirational
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
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
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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Creativity Running Use
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
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
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
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Design Perfect
When 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.
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Breaking News People Thinking Twenties
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife

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