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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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" 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. "

Harper Reed

Crazy

Back

Time

" The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience. "

Harper Reed

Ideas

Stability

" 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. "

" It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a very patient person in general. "

" Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice. "

" Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair. "

" In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing. "

" This idea of, there's a locked door; how do you open it? You don't necessarily care what's behind it; you're just more excited about opening the lock... It's not about finding the treasure; it's more about defeating the puzzle. "

" 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. "

" I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me. "

Harper Reed

Remember

Myself

" Let's not project our fears onto others. "

" I usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience. Where they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision. "

" Don't eat the pizza; get lots of sleep - you have to take care of yourself. It's about being your tip top self at all times, and if you are unhealthy, or you're sick, or you don't feel good, even it's just because you're sluggish, you're not going to make it because you're not going to be able to react to things. "

" A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men. "

" My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads. "

" 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. "

" If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing. "

" We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?' "

" If there's a wall, we break it down and go through it. "

Harper Reed

Wall

Down

" We see these wonderful apps that really have changed our world in many good ways such as Uber or Airbnb, but at the same time, they're drastically changing the workforce. And they're changing them so much that the industries themselves are not able to keep up. "

" The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but we weren't as innovative as our competitors. "

" Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not. "

Harper Reed

Going

Mobile

" When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful. "

" Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored. "

" I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water. "

" I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy. "

" I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy. "

" TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity. "