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.
BIZ STONEI think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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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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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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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
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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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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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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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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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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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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I’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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