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I exercise most days.
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Anybody can be ambitious.
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I think Twitter is great.
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Profit per se is not my motive.
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Motive
Profit
Profit Motive
Per
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Ads shouldn't be in people's way.
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Ads
People
Way
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Buzz is not what I am looking for.
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Buzz
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No, I'm not running for office someday.
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Someday
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As a child I wanted to become an architect.
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Architect
Children
Wanted
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I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
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Knows
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Valleys
Know Anything About
Valley
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People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.
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Amazing
Amazing Things
People
Right Now
People Doing Right
Now
Amazing People Doing
Doing
Web
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I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.
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Compelled
Feels
Persons
I Am Person Who
Gets
Immersed
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You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
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Magic
Poverty
Solution
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It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.
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Causes
Organization
People
Time People Know
Cause
Takes
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I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.
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Community
Mean
Use
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Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
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Blogs
News
Social
Social Network
Networks
Daily
Social Networks
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You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.
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Inspirational
Business
Needs
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I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
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Mentor
Parent
People
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My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
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Fame
Firsts
Internet
Iphone
Real
Claim
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I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
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Technology
Development
Nexus
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I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
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Skills
Social Change
Trying
World
Change World Trying
Developed
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I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
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Needs
Thinking
Want
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I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
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Believe
Desire
Engaged
Genuine
People
Positively
Believe World People
Fundamentally
World Believe People
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Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
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Journalism
Long
Long Time
Time Long Long Time
Facebook
Something Else
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I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
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Carolina
Children
Financial Aid
North Carolina
Only Child
Parent
Significant
Aid
North
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People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.
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Frustration
Metrics
People
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Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
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Company
Focused
Ideas
People
Good People Who
Younger
Companies
Finding
Good Idea
Mostly
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The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?
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Might
Size
Thinking
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Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
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Opportunity
Pain
Thinking
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By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
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Technology
Culture
People
Connect
Networks
Finally
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The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
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Hostile
Journalism
Landscape
Competitive
In-Depth
Introduced
Web
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Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
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Majority
Reading
Republic
Years
Sooner
Vast
Likely
Readers
Tablet
Vast Majority
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I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
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Religious
School
Southern
Boarding
Boarding School
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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Care
Connected
Higher
Individual
Issues
Probability
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You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
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Purpose
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I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.
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Believe
Past
Strong
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My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
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Millions
Theory
Change Day People
Deliver
Millions Of People
Promises
Strengthen
Working Day
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I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.
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Thinking
Thoughtful
Views
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What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
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Easier
Ideas
Interesting
Introduction
Ipads
Process
Thinking
Read
Ipad
Linger
Nook
Pause
Problems
Tablet
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When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.
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Parking Lot
Somewhere
Beggars
Time Walk Remember
Weeks
Park
Several
Sleeping
Trip
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I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.
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Causes
Crisis
Meaningful
Moving
Rely
Skills
Time Money Moment
Personally
Presents
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