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Biz Stone
American
Businessman
Born:
Mar 10
,
1974
Culture
Me
People
Think
Twitter
You
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Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
Biz Stone
Positive
Culture
Mindful
Respecting
Empathetic
Coworkers
Being
Your
Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.
Biz Stone
Work
Time
Family
Me
Events
Treat
Try
Top
Way
Properly
Schedule
Put
Calendar
Balancing
Priority
Blocked
Off
Sneak
Precious
Precious Time
Any
May
Meaning
Dedicated
Specific
Actually
For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism.
Biz Stone
Me
Culture
Focus
Responsibility
Build
About
Idea
Learned
Social
Means
Social Responsibility
Company
I think it's a really big deal to be able to meet people outside the context of something like a conference room or someplace where everything feels like it's formal talk.
Biz Stone
People
Big
Think
Meet
Everything
Able
Someplace
Something
Outside
Feels
Like
Talk
Deal
Context
Big Deal
Conference
Where
Formal
Room
Really
It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
Biz Stone
People
Important
Take
Up
Brave
Regimes
Stand
Stand Up
Star
Credit
Chances
You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
Biz Stone
Service
You
People
Communicate
Will
Down
Ways
Find
Shut
I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.
Biz Stone
Love
Old
Word
Out
Writer
Almost
Adventures
Like
Read
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Were
Continue
Loud
Forever
Any
Just
Where
Stories
Holmes
Meant
Meant To Be
Paid
I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.
Biz Stone
Positive
Work
Love
Capitalism
Business
World
Three
Building
Positive Impact
Local
Our
Way
Define
Definition
Impact
Some
Having
New
Global
New Way
Whether
Ingredients
Successful
Convinced
Should
Include
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
Biz Stone
Me
Twitter
Birds
Object
About
Excited
Excites
Idea
Around
Moving
Flight
Flock
Thing
In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
Biz Stone
Leadership
You
Somebody
Disappointing
Always
Any
Going
Position
Everything I've done, I've made up. Some of that might have been right; most of it was probably wrong.
Biz Stone
Made
Everything
Some
Wrong
Most
Been
Up
Done
Might
Right
We focus a lot on culture specifically at Twitter because of this spotlight, and of the fact that we don't want to end up like the child actor who found success early and grew up all weird and freaky.
Biz Stone
Success
Culture
Focus
Twitter
Freaky
Fact
Weird
Like
Because
Spotlight
Lot
End
Up
Child
Child Actor
Want
Grew
Who
Found
Actor
Specifically
Early
We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
Biz Stone
Good
Culture
First
Before
Twitter
Our
Impact
Had
Make
Sure
Doing
Doing Good
Hired
Years
Sales
Person
A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
Biz Stone
You
Invested
Fail
Personal
Personally
Working
Belief
I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.
Biz Stone
Day
People
Too Much
Think
Twitter
Too
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Out
Per
Following
Because
Boxing
Times
Stop
Break
Them
Much
Need
The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets.
Biz Stone
Phones
Single
Every
Twitter
Characters
Entirely
Over
Because
Within
Limit
Said
Built
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Texting
Five
Wanted
Planet
Billion
International
Tweets
You can provide a short-format content, and it can grow, and it can spread virally across the entire Twitter system, and it can contain within it a link to something that's much longer, that's a long essay or that's a video.
Biz Stone
You
Long
Twitter
System
Entire
Something
Contain
Longer
Content
Within
Spread
Provide
Link
Essay
Video
Much
Across
Grow
Doing startups is all about making mistakes.
Biz Stone
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Startups
About
Making
Doing
Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.
Biz Stone
Mistake
People
Walk
Google
Doors
See
Open
Open Doors
Supposed
Know
Obviously
Around
Doing
Were
Just
Working
Used
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