“It’s like flying a plane, and you’re trying to find the right altitude and you’re doing it with a four-year-old company and four-year-old processes and four-year-old systems.”
Groupon co-CEO Eric Lefkofsky, offering a not-so-reassuring mix of metaphors for how he’s steering the daily-deals company, Fast Company, 13 March 2013
“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
“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
“I realized my algorithms were so far from having a snarky detector that this was a better approach.”
Google executive Bradley Horowitz, on the time at Yahoo when he discovered Flickr users were better at tagging photos than his machines, VentureBeat, 22 May 2012
“We continue to talk to Google frequently and on an ongoing basis. They are a company that’s doing several different things right now. Those conversations have a complexity to them that is different than our conversations with the company.”
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, putting the “skate” in “obfuscate” while discussing his former employer, Business Insider, 1 May 2012
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