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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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Advantage Firsts Opportunity
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
So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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Attention Long Smart
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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Artist Entrepreneur Thinking
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
People first. Technology second.
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Firsts People Technology
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
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.
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Able Software Writing
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
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
I’ve probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it’s so simple, real time communication of individuals that allow for this super organism type of organism to happen.
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Communication Moving Real
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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Coworker Culture Empathetic
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.
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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position

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