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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.

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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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Creating Ideas People
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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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
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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Basically Good Most People Simple Smart
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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Contains Information Links News Simple
It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Brave Chance People Regimes Stars Take
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
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
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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Distribute Mean Say Sound
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Inspiring Perseverance Success
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
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
Creativity comes from constraint.
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Business Creativity Entrepreneurship
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
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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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
I got an idea: people like news why don’t we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we’ll gas them up and drive them to everyone’s house.
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Ideas Mean Writing

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