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I text nonstop, and I love emoji. I'm also on the phone quite a bit for work - probably more than 10 calls per day.
What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.
When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.
Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world.
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."
I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up spooning my laptop.
People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.
We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.
As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.
One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's been a big priority of mine.
We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.
Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.
When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
We don't want to own people's photos. We want to help them communicate with friends in whatever way makes them happiest.
There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.
We have to come together, worldwide, and "think". We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
We have to come together, worldwide, and 'think.' We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.
Twitter is like hugging. Just because it's hard to measure the return on investment doesn't mean there isn't value there.
To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.
We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.
I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.
I am a bit of a workaholic, and I am still not sure what a "weekend" is all about. I love what I do, and I do what I love.
The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.
If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.
People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.
The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks.
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.
Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.
Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
I believe that there's something interesting about anyone and everyone - you just have to figure out what that something is.
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.
It's no surprise companies that quickly grow in value attract those who may want to also profit from the hard work of others.
I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it.
Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas.
Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.