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Biz Stone
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 10
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Christopher Isaac Stone
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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.
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The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group.
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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.
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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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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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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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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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Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.
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I knew Mac pretty well. I'd used them when I was younger.
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In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.
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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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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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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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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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Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
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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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Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
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