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" Let's not project our fears onto others. "
Harper Reed
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" My entire career has been based around commerce. The Obama campaign was famous for raising boatloads of money online. My question is how do you make conversions better through mobile and e-mail. "
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" I spent a lot of time hacking, doing all this stuff, building websites, building communities, working all the time, and then a lot of time drinking, partying, and hanging out. And I had to choose when to do which. "
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" Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big. "
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" I can only speak to the Democrat side, but for the Democrats, everything is aggressively measured, and what that means is if you're going to use Snapchat, you're going to use it for a reason, not just for fun. "
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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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" I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries. "
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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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" We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats. "
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" 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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" People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought. "
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" Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is now the oxygen of our Internet world. "
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" I've had a lot of bosses that I didn't agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can't let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I'm the one that's yelling at myself. I've worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful. "
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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 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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