In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
BIZ STONEI’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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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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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It’s important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They’re the star.
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Constraint inspires creativity
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I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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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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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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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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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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I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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 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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