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“Make tweets effortless to enjoy, make it easier for all to participate, and make each of us on Twitter feel heard and valuable.”
“Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.”
“Uber is a better company with better math, better predictive supply, better brand, lower pickup times, higher quality of service. They'll absolutely win.”
“When I think about Trump and the GOP, the blood really is on their hands.”
“If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.”
“'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.”
“Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.”
“When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.”
“Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.”
“American computer science grads often have very little exposure to the human condition. They've rarely had manual labor or service jobs. They grow up in a bubble of privilege lulled into thinking this country is a true meritocracy.”
“A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by with a bad idea. So, as pithy as it sounds to say 'It's all about the people,' I only invest when I think I have found the right team for the right business.”
“For most people, Twitter is too hard to use.”
“For most people, tweeting is scary.”
“Twitter is 'Black Twitter'. That is a brand that 'Black Twitter' has given itself. That's where the hashtags happen... where the excitement is.”
“I wasn't put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn't my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.”
“I believe there is no natural ceiling on the revenue Twitter can generate. I also believe that Twitter's reach can become more pervasive and its impact on the world more meaningful.”
“One of my rules for investing is, I don't invest in a deal where I don't think I have an unfair advantage and where I don't think I can personally impact the outcome.”
“The Sharks step right on each other's questions, and if I ever did that in Silicon Valley, I would be considered a pariah. I literally had to learn how to interrupt.”
“I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that.”
“I want to make clear that my feedback comes from a place of loyalty and persistent gratitude. I love Twitter.”