The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
BIZ STONEI thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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I’ve seen people twitter in haiku only.
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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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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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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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I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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People first. Technology second.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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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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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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