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While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

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Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

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Google started out when the dot-com boom was happening. It grew under the radar of big companies that were competing in but basically ignoring search. Then they were able to really invest during the bust for a long time.

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'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.

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When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

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Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

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While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.

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I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.

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My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

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Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch.

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I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

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I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

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I've done a lot of stupid things, but in most cases I can't complain about the outcomes.

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A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.

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My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.

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People are fans of Dunkin' Donuts. They have a relationship with the company, they go there every day. Dunkin' Donuts is using Twitter to communicate with those people. There are people who are finding value in that. There's thousands of people, I don't know how many thousands now, following Dunkin' Donuts.

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Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

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The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up.

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Where you are defines what you're interested in.

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In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

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I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.

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There's something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet.

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If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution.

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