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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
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Empowering People Tools
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
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
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.
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Bird Ideas Moving
We didn’t have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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Around Cities Communicate Real Roaming
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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Belief Failing Faith Personal
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
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 haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
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Connection Experience Greatest Work
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
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Communicate People Way
Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Certain Emotional Guaranteed Success
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Google Place Thought Work
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life

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