I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
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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Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind.
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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 knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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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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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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Constraint inspires creativity
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We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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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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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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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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Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.
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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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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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