Evan Williams quotes

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring. (Evan Williams)
Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users. View quote
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After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. View quote
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I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets. View quote
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Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways. View quote
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The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up. View quote
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If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution. View quote
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I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder. View quote
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I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier. View quote
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I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent. View quote
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When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success. (Evan Williams)