Stewart Butterfield Quotes
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Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.
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For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
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What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.
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The experience of being able to search back over all your team's communications for, in our case, millions of messages, is super-valuable. But you don't know what that's like until you actually have it.
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If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.
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Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.
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I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
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All the people on the Flickr team are committed to what we're doing, which is to be the eyes of the world.
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I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
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It's easy to hire too fast and have chaos and disorganization and insufficient management.