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" It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur. "

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" I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. "

" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "

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" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "

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" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "

" Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation. "

" I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate. "

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" Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making. "

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" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "

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" The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access. "

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" We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way. "