American - Businessman | March 21, 1978 -
When you go from building T-shirts to software for a presidential campaign used by a cast of millions, it's pretty easy to think, 'OK, we can build something pretty big.'
Harper Reed
BuildingThinkEasyYouGoBuild
I think there are a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand figuring out their mobile strategy - let alone their chat app strategy - and programming a Facebook Messenger chatbot.
AloneThinkBrandStrategyOut
We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.
CatsInterestingRealSocialMake
In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing.
New YorkCityDoingNewWayOwn
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.
WalkPizzaAdviceYouEngineersEat
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.
GoodYourselfSleepPizzaFeel Good
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.
WorkHomeTimeCrazyDinnerBack
Oftentimes in tech, people think, 'I'm the only one that has this.' I call them the Atlas People. They're like, 'The weight of the world is on the shoulders. I'm the only person who can solve this problem.' But you can't do that.
PeopleWorldThinkProblemYouCall
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.
PeopleSmallPushPeacefulElection
Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.
ThinkCountryElectionDonald Trump
My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.
ProgressPeopleWorryAutomation
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.
BetterSecurityFirstBigGoing
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