“Zynga is often accused of copying games, which is mostly true.”
Zynga New York general manager and former OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter, on selling his Pictionary clone to the world’s foremost maker of Poker and Scrabble clones, Quartz, 8 March 2013
Author: owenthomas
WE LOVE YOU, NOW PLEASE GO AWAY
“The startup and venture capital space is of major interest to all the creative industries that are at the core of the SXSW family of events.”
SXSW managing director Roland Swenson, on exiling the blue-shirts-and-khakis crowd to a spinoff event in Las Vegas, SXSW.com, 23 October 2012
TOO CUTE FOR CHARACTERS
“We call them VIT’s internally, Very Important Tweeters. It’s cute; we’re all about being adorable and cute.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, on how the company coddles celebrities who post messages on the information network, Bits, 25 July 2012
FAME IS TWEETING
“So when Gabriel joined the company, it was like ‘Your job: no dying birds on national magazine covers. See if you can clear that low bar.'”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, on the easy job he’s handed new PR chief Gabriel Stricker, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2012
INSERT “PATH TO PROFITABILITY” JOKE HERE
“We’re thinking about this and obviously have ideas about profitability. Right now we’re staying focused on the product.”
Path CEO Dave Morin, displaying a blithe disregard for such pedestrian matters as actually running his startup as a business, CNBC, 4 June 2012
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