Harper Reed Quotes
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TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity.
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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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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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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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Before I was hired by Obama's team as the CTO for his 2012 re-election campaign, I had certainly never been involved with anything of that nature before. Yet, I somehow knew I could do the job. I attribute that confidence to my experience as a hacker and the subsequent willingness to take risks.
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We developed our product called Dashboard, which was a software tool that was designed to be a virtual campaign office to help volunteers communicate and collaborate through emails and interacting online. It was our attempt to take an offline field office and merge it online.
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The thing about Snapchat is it is ephemeral, so you don't - it's not like a video that you post to YouTube and then everyone can see it. It's this video that you get to share this kind of very intimate experience again, this very kind of genuine experience with another person in a more one-on-one sort of way. And I really appreciate that.
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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.
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Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.
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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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My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.
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When you read Trump's tweets or see candidates interact online like Jeb did with Hillary, you're like, 'Yes, it's just like my friends.' That's the magic.
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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?'
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We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.
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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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If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.
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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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A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.
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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.
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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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Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.
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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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The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes.