American - Businessman | March 21, 1978 -
In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.
Harper Reed
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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.
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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 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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There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into the machine, and I know what is going to come out of it.
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I'm not a very patient person in general.
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You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.
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Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.
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'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.
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I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?
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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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What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house.
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