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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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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
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
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
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
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
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
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
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
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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 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.
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Ideas Mean Writing
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
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
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
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
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
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
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

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