People are watching TV, they’re watching some clips on their iPhone. I mean, some folks are sitting there on the iPhone, watching the Colbert Report, and meanwhile there’s a huge plasma TV right in front of them that they could be watching it on.
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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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Creativity comes from constraint.
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I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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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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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 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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I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.
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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 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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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
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Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource – you are not going to run out of it – so don’t be afraid to use it.
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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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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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