A biography for Tom Andersonhasn’t been written yet.
“From the very beginning, our driving passion has been simple: to create and foster a platform where people across the globe can not only meet and interact, but share music, videos, thoughts and ideas.”
“We didn't expect it to be cool, with people trading URLs instead of phone numbers.”
“I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.”
“I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.”
“If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won't be cool.”
“Google is basically too big for anyone to go against in a serious way.”
“I live in Hawaii part time and love shooting the ocean, both long exposures that capture the movement of water and with a fast shutter speed to freeze the power and force of a wave.”
“I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.”
“But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”
“Music is a major cornerstone of our success.”
“I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I'm sort of an alarmist.”
“When you go to a band's MySpace page you will have the full discography of everything they've ever recorded that you can listen to online.”
“We asked people why they didn't go to MySpace. A lot of people thought it was too hard to use, they thought it was a music site, or a content site. Privacy was a concern, or they'd say it was a site for teenagers.”
“We recognized from the beginning that we could create profiles for the bands and allow people to use the site any way they wanted to. We didn't stop people from promoting whatever they wanted to promote on MySpace.”
“I can't stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.”
“It can be a little scary. Like one time I posted a link to NPR because I thought it was interesting, and it took down their Web site.”
“Time is the most important thing to me - how can you do all the things you want to do with such limited time... I'm hoping science of life extension makes progress.”
“MySpace News is designed to let users decide what's most relevant to them, and we've given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.”
“On Friendster, if you were a band and you made a profile, they would delete it. They didn't want bands on their site.”