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I programmed computers every day. And one of my favourite apps we built was this thing called Awesome Updater, that all it did is send you a tweet randomly that was like, 'Yo, you're awesome.'
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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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Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from other startup or tech conferences.
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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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Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.
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First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do - rebelling. But if they're able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security.
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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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A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.
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PayPal's been around forever. How do we use that platform to solve the future of commerce?
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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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I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?
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The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.
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Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.
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I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water.
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