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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 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
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
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
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
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
I think before Twitter people didn’t think that way, not in any sort of meaningful or specific way, so what I’m trying to say, if we’re trying a bunch of stuff, a lot of cool and great social stuff, a lot of platform stuff, then some of it will stick, and some of it will be junked over.
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Meaningful Over Phone Social Thinking
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
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
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
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
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 realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped

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