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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.

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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
Constraint inspires creativity
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Constraints Creativity Inspire
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
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
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
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
What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we’re doing it now. You know? Maybe that’s a way to go.
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Country Giving Technology
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
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 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
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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Making Mistakes Mistake
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
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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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment

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