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" I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent. "
Evan Williams
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" The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring. "
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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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" 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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" What the Internet is great at is building networks. "
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" Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch. "
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" Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break. "
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" Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem. "
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