I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
BIZ STONESo 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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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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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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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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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The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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