We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
BIZ STONEI’m curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
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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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I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
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Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?
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You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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When you think about Twitter, there are people all around the world reporting twenty-four seven, every second. They’re reporting what they’re seeing and what’s happening around them. So there’s a lot of potential for breaking news.
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Embrace your constraints.
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The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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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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We can figure it out, it’s not like we all have a disease.
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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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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.
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The future of marketing is philanthropy.
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In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Even though running is physically straining, it’s mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
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