Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
BIZ STONEWe 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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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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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I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
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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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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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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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They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, “Me.” He was like, “The box guy?”
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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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A personal belief is that if you’re not personally invested in what you’re working on, you’ll fail.
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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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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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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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