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Biz Stone
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 10
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Christopher Isaac Stone
Isaac Biz Stone
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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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You have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.
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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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I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.
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Creativity is a renewable resource.
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The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.
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I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, Why would I carry my phone around? And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.
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Embrace your constraints.
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The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.
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We did Twitter, and Twitter grew so fast, and in 2006 we spun it out into Twitter, Inc.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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I'd dropped out of college to start design thing.
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Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.
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