“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
“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
“I love young entrepreneurs.”
Flickr cofounder and angel investor Caterina Fake, disclosing one of her weaknesses, Newsweek, 18 November 2010
“In five years, Facebook is world’s social dial tone, Amazon is your shopping dial tone, we will be your social games dial tone.”
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, on how players of its popular social games like FarmVille should really think of its constant out-of-sync errors as the 21st-century equivalent of fast busy signals, Twitter, 21 October 2010
“The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, criticizing the decision by Hewlett-Packard’s board to request CEO Mark Hurd’s resignation following an expense-account scandal involving a softcore porn actress, New York Times, 8 August 2010
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