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" If advertisers want to decorate their ads to increase their conversions by showing what users think, that's a good thing. "
Mitch Kapor
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" Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos. "
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Shoe
Change
New
" Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Made
Technological
Life
" I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents. "
Mitch Kapor
Opportunities
How
Valley
" Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see. "
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See
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" For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool. "
Mitch Kapor
You
People
New York
" I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me. "
Mitch Kapor
Professional
Great
Angel
" The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity. "
Mitch Kapor
Information
Use
Better
" It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s. "
Mitch Kapor
Questions
Electricity
Talk
" There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Belief
Best
" Fundly is at the dynamic intersection of high-growth technology startups, social entrepreneurship, and the exploding world of social media. Kapor Capital is proud to back this passionate team, their product, and Fundly's impressive customer base. "
Mitch Kapor
Team
Technology
World
" Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. "
Mitch Kapor
Society
Questions
Problems
" We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology. "
Mitch Kapor
Computer
Anxiety
Living
" There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed. "
Mitch Kapor
Down
Own
Mean
" Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change. "
Mitch Kapor
Change
Steps
Take
" I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever. "
Mitch Kapor
Empires
Know
Google
" The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. "
Mitch Kapor
Design
Software
Needs
" No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. "
Mitch Kapor
Family
Island
Russian
" Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983. "
Mitch Kapor
October
Market
Available
" I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product. "
Mitch Kapor
Unique
Will
Together
" The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience. "
Mitch Kapor
Life
Entrepreneur
You
" The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. "
Mitch Kapor
Decision
Kind
Start
" I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move. "
Mitch Kapor
Live
Circumstances
Move
" Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects. "
Mitch Kapor
Way
Information
Subjects
" Open source can propagate to fill all the nooks and crannies that people want it to fill. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Want
Open
" I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study. "
Mitch Kapor
Wall
Study
Quick
" I believe in having an impact in doing things. "
Mitch Kapor
Doing
I Believe
Impact
" I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. "
Mitch Kapor
People
Day
Help
" Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting. "
Mitch Kapor
Fact
Coming
Exciting
" The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet. "
Mitch Kapor
Nobody
Internet
Fast
" In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon. "
Mitch Kapor
Me
World
Sense