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.
BIZ STONEI 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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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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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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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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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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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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If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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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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Creativity comes from constraint.
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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 mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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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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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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You curate information that you want to receive. It’s a lot different because I’m not asking you if it’s okay, I’m just saying I’m following your updates. That’s why I don’t think of Twitter as a social network.
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