“Blogging didn’t really start until 2005.”
Yammer CEO David Sacks, getting his reverse chronological order all wrong, Business Insider, 25 November 2011
I’M ON THE RIGHT FARM, BABY, I WAS BORN THIS WAY
May 10, 2011“Lady Gaga is passionate, 100 percent fan-focused, and a fashion icon. At Zynga we’re at least two of those things, three on a good day.”
Zynga executive Owen Van Natta, breaking his long-silent poker face to announce a partnership between the FarmVille operator and the ubiquitously networked singer, VentureBeat, 10 May 2011
LOOK AT THIS WORKING HIPSTER
March 26, 2011“The message being sent is that this is a cool, cool place to work. That matters when you are a young, hipster developer.”
SimpleGeo CEO Jay Adelson, on why his geolocation service poured beer money down the drain in Austin in search of engineers, New York Times, 26 March 2011
THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN TWEET
November 26, 2010“I am working on clarity around that at the moment. I am currently trying to define what Twitter’s purpose is in the long term.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, struggling to write a mission statement for the microblogging enterprise that stays under 140 characters, The Telegraph, 26 November 2010
LOVE, EXCITING AND NEW
November 19, 2010“I love young entrepreneurs.”
Flickr cofounder and angel investor Caterina Fake, disclosing one of her weaknesses, Newsweek, 18 November 2010
