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Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Computers
Population
Rapid
Shrunk
Successes
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I work really hard. My daughter asks me what I do, and it's mostly calls, emails, and meetings. We have our office in Hayes Valley, a nice part of town, because we're all about place being important.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Meetings
Work Me Important
Calls
Emails
Valley
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I had never understood why the farmlands of the U.S. had been settled in such a sparse and isolated way, whereas the farming communities in Europe seemed closer, more convivial, centered around village life.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Farming
Isolated
Understood
Village
Life Way Never
Centered
Closer
Communities
Seemed
Settled
Whereas
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It's fairly easy to know when you've succeeded because you're kind of hanging on for dear life. It's such an unstoppable juggernaut; you're trying to stay with your head above water because things are moving so fast.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Dear
Unstoppable
Fairly
Succeeded
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On Etsy, you can't resell new goods you weren't involved in making, whereas on eBay and Amazon, that is more than welcome - everything from dishwashers to XBoxes, curling irons, espresso machines, and metal detectors.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Ebay
Goods
Involved
Machines
Welcome
Curling
Detector
Irons
Metal
Whereas
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'Game Never Ending' came out of an earlier game called 'NeoPets,' a children's game that adults also played. It was a series of mini-games where you accrue points and can acquire objects - houses and all kinds of stuff.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Acquire
Series
Adult
Played
Earlier
Ending
Houses
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Etsy radically simplified and amended their policies. Sellers of handmade goods can now hire as much help as they need to run their shops. They can apply to sell designs they produce with the help of outside businesses.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Goods
Handmade
Produce
Sellers
Shops
Amended
Apply
Businesses
Designs
Sell
Hire
Outside
Policies
Radically
Simplified
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Being pregnant has all kinds of advantages. People keep telling you how beautiful you look. They do it over and over. Very sweet of them, but it is just not true. I've seen myself before, and I've definitely looked better.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Being Pregnant
Pregnant
Advantages
Seen
Definitely
Looked
Telling
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For a while, I couldn't join Facebook because of my last name. During the registration process, I was asked for my real name, and when I wrote 'Fake,' it rejected me. Finally, a friend working for Facebook took care of me.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Fake
Registration
Rejected
Join
Real Name
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Etsy is fundamentally a creative community. On eBay, or Amazon for that matter, practically anyone can sell practically anything. On Etsy, you can only sell handmade goods, vintage goods over 20 years old, and craft supplies for making.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Ebay
Goods
Handmade
Supplies
Vintage
Craft
Fundamentally
Practically
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If you look at all the companies I've been involved with - Flickr, Etsy, Findery - communities are a significant part of them. Connecting people to each other, user-generated content, building interactions. That's what I've cared about most.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Connecting
Significant
Cared
Interactions
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Rob Kalin, Etsy's founder, never finished college. Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey - the founders of Twitter - are not college graduates. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, is another dropout. And, of course, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Jobs
College
Finished
Gates
Graduates
Mark
Twitter
Bill
Bill Gates
Course
Facebook
Rob
Founder
Jack
Mark Zuckerberg
Steve
Williams
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I've never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn't measure anything meaningful - usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I'd just as quickly forget.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Cheating
Grades
Information
Meaningful
Understood
Cared
Instinctively
Memorize
Quickly
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Because the Internet is a medium, it doesn't care whether it transmits love or hate. It is what we build and who we are that make it what it is. We can build things that diminish our humanity or build things that bring us to human flourishing.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Diminish
Flourishing
Medium
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A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Effectiveness
Excellence
School
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I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
College
Current Events
Economist
Literature
Meetings
Neighborhood
Studied
Concerns
Stay
Read
Current
New Yorker
Yorker
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When we were making Flickr, we called it the 'Eyes of the World.' The idea was that everybody, everywhere, is looking. It was this sense of being able to penetrate worlds that you had never been able to access before - of global, universal travel.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Penetrate
Worlds
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I wish we didn't have to be nude to be noticed... But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is, in all of its states... the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Instance
Scholarship
Contest
Exists
Noticed
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I approached Yahoo as a learning experience. Everything at every stage of the game affects what you do next. At Yahoo, I learned a lot about social search and met a lot of amazing people - some are now entrepreneurs with companies I subsequently invested in.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Amazing People
Learning Experience
Affects
Experience Learning Amazing
Entrepreneurs
Invested
Search
Subsequently
Yahoo
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If you built a successful company the first time, it's really important not to fall into the trap of resting on your laurels and doing the same thing the next time. It's stepping into the unknown that enables you to create something fresh, new, and innovative.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
First Time
Innovative
Laurels
Next Time
Unknown
Enables
Resting
Same Thing
Stepping
Trap
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Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion, can be reasonably certain that their values and ways of socialized behaving will be adopted by the next generation.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Admire
Adopted
Affection
Offspring
Behaving
Good Opinion
Maintain
Reasonably
Socialized
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'You, too, can be the President,' every American kid is told. But one unintended consequence of this belief, it is that, as a result of our being a meritocracy, if you have not succeeded, you are of lesser merit. It is shameful to be a failure in this country.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Consequence
Merit
Shameful
Every American
Lesser
Succeeded
Unintended
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The wall at Le Philosophe is covered with French philosophers, and supposedly, if you are able to name all of them, they will pay for your meal. I was only able to identify Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Descartes and, I think, Foucault. And, I think, Luce Irigaray.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Covered
Identify
Meal
Philosophers
Sartre
Supposedly
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A lot of the reason I wanted to become an entrepreneur and avoid working for others is that you get to create the world you want to live in and the company you want to work for, and I've loved that. It's a part of entrepreneurship that women should really embrace.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Embrace
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship
Work Women World
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I worked at a Web development shop and other start-ups and eventually started a project called Ludicorp, which built an online game. We soon ran out of money, and Flickr was the last-ditch effort to save the company. It quickly became a very unstoppable juggernaut.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Ran
Unstoppable
Shop
Web
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Entrepreneurship works on the apprenticeship model. The best way to learn how to be an entrepreneur is to start a company and seek the advice of a successful entrepreneur in the area in which you are interested. Or work at a startup for a few years to learn the ropes.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Apprenticeship
Best Way
Best Work Start
Ropes
Startup
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My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff. Physical objects. The world and the trees and the sunshine and the flowers. And all of that doesn't seem to really exist out in the ether of the Internet.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Materials
Occasional
Painter
Sunshine
Background
Flowers
Exist
Ether
Physical
Sculptor
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Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Effort
Entrepreneur
Needs
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One of the issues we face here in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is a sense that the people all around us are as conversant in startup and tech culture as we are. But we need to remember, and remind ourselves repeatedly, that we're a small minority in a larger population.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Population
San Francisco
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Francisco
Minority
Remind
San
Tech
Startup
Valley
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If there is a national, secular religion in the United States, it is the belief that America is the Land of Opportunity, that we are a meritocracy, that any kid, no matter who they are, or where they come from, can work hard and move up in the world: that their effort matters.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Belief
Effort
Secular
Matters
Work Hard
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My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Blogging
Literature
Magic
Online
Publishing
Self Expression
Software
Background
Networks
Dante
Shakespeare
Social Networks
Web
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When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was an English major, and then I became a fine artist. But when I arrived in San Francisco in 1995, I figured I could leverage my artistic skills by becoming a Web designer and programmer.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Designer
English Major
San Francisco
Figured
Francisco
Leverage
Programmer
San
Web
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If the business were a play, Act One is: Woohoo, bright and bushy-tailed. We're going to make something great! Act Two is: We're six months behind on back-end development. We're trying to raise venture capital. We're trying to figure out what furniture we should sell to make payroll.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Business
Play
Two
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If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Evolve
Memories
Possibility
Alter
Forgetting
Recover
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The Well taught us how to create a civilized space for debate, speak in our own voices, use our real names, mediate flame wars, and boot trolls. Brand's mantra was, 'You own your own words,' meaning you have the right to say your piece but must also take responsibility for what you say.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Civilized
Debate
Names
Boot
Flame
Mantra
Voices
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In my house, there is an old Chinese cabinet full of little figurines on two shelves. They are for my daughter, to tell stories. We have told hours and hours or stories using these figures. There are all kinds of people, children and adults, and all kinds of animals - elephants, tigers, snakes.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Daughter
Chinese
Elephants
Figures
Shelves
Snakes
Tigers
Adult
Animals
Cabinet
Hours And Hours
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I can't tell you how many times I've booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they killed my ticket because it goes into the system, and the program tosses a ticket that says 'fake' on it. Twice I've gone to the counter for a KLM flight through Northwest and have been rejected.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Air
Fake
Flight
Program
Rejected
Twice
Airport
Counter
Booked
Goes
How Many Times
Northwest
Says
System
Ticket
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The Internet is full of strangers, generous strangers who want to help you for no reason at all. Strangers post poetry and discographies and advice and essays and photos and art and diatribes. None of them are known to you, in the old-fashioned sense. But they give the Internet its life and meaning.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Essays
Generous
No Reason
Life Art Poetry
Post
Strangers
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I first got online in the late '80s when I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. I was a reader, into Jorge Luis Borges, and I found, connected to, and delighted in a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark, that I met online.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Delighted
Denmark
Eccentric
Jersey
New Jersey
Popularity
Teenager
Scholars
Suburban
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I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of Jorge Luis Borges, I found a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark - perfect strangers - whom I connected to online and immediately became enthralled by the idea of virtual communities.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Sports
Clothes
Connected
Denmark
Eccentric
Jersey
New Jersey
Online
Perfect
Popularity
Became
Interested
Fan
Communities
Group
Immediately
Mostly
Strangers
Scholars
Suburban
Virtual
Whom
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Being open and observant of people and the world around you is really important. People have the same desires and needs online as they do offline. The way that people are stays constant. You can change the format, make it easier for them to communicate or use photos instead of words but human necessities never change.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Desire
Important
People
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Part of why making Pinwheel is so fun, is so exploding with possibility, is that a note, like a photo, can be a container for all kinds of things. It is the perfect social object. Stories, advice, jokes, diatribes, information, memories, facts, advertisements, love letters, grocery lists, and manifestoes can all be put into a note.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Exploding
Letters
Lists
Memories
Possibility
Advertisement
Container
Photo
Grocery
Love Letters
Note
Object
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I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Academic
Attending
Careers
English Literature
Grad
Grad School
Regret
Renaissance
Spending
Verge
Jump
Shakespeare
Spent
Studying
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A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Communication
Blue
Borders
Changed
Dominance
Gathering
Internet
Mobile
Shops
Walmart
Within
Since
Days
Concentrated
Facebook
Places
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I learned most of what I knew about online communities on The Well, and it was a good place to learn. The group of people in Sausalito and Bolinas who'd gotten the Whole Earth Catalog off the ground - a bunch of boomer hippies, intellectuals and nerds - established the 'Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link', and showed us what online communities were.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Good Place
Good People Earth
Established
Boomer
Catalog
Intellectuals
Hippies
Link
Nerds
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In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two, almost three years, and had all my work on it - email, which was stored locally; photos; fragments of poems; presentations; sketches; ideas; love letters; everything. I lamented the loss to my friends and got lectured on doing backups.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Computer
Disk
Fragments
Letters
Loss
All My Work
Crashed
Laptop
Locally
Photos
Sketches
Stored
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Inspiration is really all around us. I pay attention to a lot of different fields. I stay up on current events. I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. Paying attention to social interactions offline really inform interactions online. The real world is a bottomless source of inspiration for what you can build.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Inspiration
People
Real
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Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Kids
Accomplishment
Climbing
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Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.
Caterina Fake / Businesswoman
Fun
Ideas
People
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