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Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.
I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.
I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.
Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression.
Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.
We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.
Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.
There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.
Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.
When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.
Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.
Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.
I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.
The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
People want a remarkable experience; it's what they'll talk about, largely because the bar has been set so low by so many companies.
Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure.
Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.
I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.
Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.
A lot of the future of search is going to be about pictures instead of keywords. Computer vision technology is going to be a big deal.
My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.
I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.
I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.
Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.
I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.
Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.
A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
The ability to fail quietly without having that failure associated with your name/identity allows for more experimentation and limit pushing.
Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.
The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.
Reddit is a network where someone with a million karma points has an equal shot as someone with 10 karma points to hit the #1 post or comment.
We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks.
I've worked on products where they go down in the middle of the night, and no one notices. You get the 'site down' notice, but it doesn't matter.
The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.
I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones.
Most redditors are at least college educated. A number of them have post- or, rather, graduate degrees. A number of them are in the IT tech world.
At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things, but you have to do them in the right order.
Google was like the only company that was like, 'We're making so much money; let's take a picture of every street in the world.' Nobody does that.
WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.
What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.
No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.
Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.