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In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.
The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.
We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.
It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.
You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't.
Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
I think the key that makes Airbnb is the fact that we're a community, not just a series of commodities.
I don't hate anyone. Sometimes I wish I could interact with the community in a more normal way, though.
The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.
What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.
Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.
I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.
A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.
Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.
The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.
When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.
The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.
The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.
When we face uncertainty, we encourage everyone to press forward and believe in the values of the product.
Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.
A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.
Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.
It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.
I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.
I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.
We start with the perfect experience and then work backward. That's how we're going to continue to be successful.
I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.
When I joined 'WhatsApp,' I was 38 years old. Opportunity is available to us in all walks of life and at all ages.
Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.
It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.