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" I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water. "
Harper Reed
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" The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but we weren't as innovative as our competitors. "
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" Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart. "
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" What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house. "
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" I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook? "
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" Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair. "
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" I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed. "
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" My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things. "
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" Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice. "
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" Oftentimes in tech, people think, 'I'm the only one that has this.' I call them the Atlas People. They're like, 'The weight of the world is on the shoulders. I'm the only person who can solve this problem.' But you can't do that. "
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" Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life. "
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" The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes. "
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" Before I was hired by Obama's team as the CTO for his 2012 re-election campaign, I had certainly never been involved with anything of that nature before. Yet, I somehow knew I could do the job. I attribute that confidence to my experience as a hacker and the subsequent willingness to take risks. "
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" All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce. "
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" We see these wonderful apps that really have changed our world in many good ways such as Uber or Airbnb, but at the same time, they're drastically changing the workforce. And they're changing them so much that the industries themselves are not able to keep up. "
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" Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things. "
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" I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me. "
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" Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live. "
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" When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful. "
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