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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.

Scott D. Anthony

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.
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I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.
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