We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.
The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.
Life happens at intersections.
You don’t have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don’t have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.
I spend 90% of my time with people who don’t report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I’m walking around the office all the time. You don’t have to schedule serendipity. It just happens.
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
Build what you want to see in the world.
Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.
Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.
As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.
My goal is to simplify complexity.
Don’t avoid eye contact and don’t be late.
What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
It’s really complex to make something simple.
Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.
You don’t have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world.
My mom cares that I tweeted a picture of my breakfast. She’s knows I’m eating and I’m safe.
TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.