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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.

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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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Interesting Pedestal Way
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
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
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
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
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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Tables Thinking Twitter
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
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
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
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Ideas Have Confidence
We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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Disease Figures Out
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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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Design Perfect
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools

I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.

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