Harper Reed

“I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.”

“My entire career has been based around commerce. The Obama campaign was famous for raising boatloads of money online. My question is how do you make conversions better through mobile and e-mail.”

“The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn't be squandered.”

“Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.”

“Don't eat the pizza; get lots of sleep - you have to take care of yourself. It's about being your tip top self at all times, and if you are unhealthy, or you're sick, or you don't feel good, even it's just because you're sluggish, you're not going to make it because you're not going to be able to react to things.”

“When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful.”

“Let's not project our fears onto others.”

“The information diet of a senior campaign staffer is insane. We were all addicted to our chosen email delivery devices and were aggressively tethered to them. It made sense and wasn't an issue during the campaign because of the importance of the situation. However, once the campaign was over and we were successful, the information flow dried up.”

“When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.”

“If there's a wall, we break it down and go through it.”

“We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.”

“My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.”

“Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.”

“I think there are a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand figuring out their mobile strategy - let alone their chat app strategy - and programming a Facebook Messenger chatbot.”

“Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd capital.”

“I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me.”

“Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big.”

“I love books that stand the test of time.”

“We didn't want to waste time by sending our volunteers to Republicans; we sent them to the undecided.”

“The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but we weren't as innovative as our competitors.”