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" If there's one thing about Chicago, we take care of our own. "
Harper Reed
Chicago
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" There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most. "
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" The information diet of a senior campaign staffer is insane. We were all addicted to our chosen email delivery devices and were aggressively tethered to them. It made sense and wasn't an issue during the campaign because of the importance of the situation. However, once the campaign was over and we were successful, the information flow dried up. "
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" A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men. "
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" The digital team who were running Twitter, they weren't just going to put out a tweet for fun. They're going to try and figure out how do we measure the impact. Then they'd tweet it, and if it worked, great. "
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Try
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" The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet. "
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" One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected. "
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" When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business. "
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" I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books. "
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Colorado
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" In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it. "
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Lot
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" I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook? "
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Amazon
" If there's a wall, we break it down and go through it. "
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Down
Go
" 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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Vacation
Stress
" When I called people and said, 'Hey! Do you want to work for the president?' they usually said yes. I had 2 people say no. One person said no because they were a Republican; one person said no because they're a Libertarian. "
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You
Said
" Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd capital. "
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Trust
Awesome
Crowd
" PayPal's been around forever. How do we use that platform to solve the future of commerce? "
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Future
Forever
" One of the things that I used to make sure I'd do was to always make sure I'd have dinner at home because I needed that disconnect from work. Even when it was crazy, I'd go home at, like, 10 o'clock and have dinner. That way, I had time where I could decompress a little bit and then go back in. "
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Crazy
Back
Time
" TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity. "
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Network
Awesome
Being
" 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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Technology
Relationship
Business
" 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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Me
World
Values
" I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders. "
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Path
Stress
World
" My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation. "
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Progress
Worry
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" Google Photos is great. I enjoy using it to curate my photo collection online. The integration on iOS to Apple Photos is a bit too much voodoo for me. "
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" I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing. "
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Amazing
Future
Sad
" Not every time you open Messenger do you want an Uber, but when you do want an Uber, it appears. That is the goal. "
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" Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos. "
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Apple
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" Let's not project our fears onto others. "
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Our
Project
Fears
" In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing. "
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City
Way
Own
" We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats. "
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Cats
Make
Interesting
" Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal. "
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" When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We'll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they'll have these stacks there for you. They'll say: 'Harper, you've knocked on 50 doors. That's great. Here's how you compare to the rest of them.' But it's all very offline. "
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