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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.

Biz Stone

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
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
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
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Impact Person Sales Years
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
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Further Marketing Philanthropy
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
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
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
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
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
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
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools

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