“There were not enough livers in California to go around. I was advised by my Stanford doctors to enroll on a list at a Memphis hospital, because it was more favorable to get a liver there.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on his efforts to make it easier to get a transplant without a private jet and your own team of doctors on call, San Jose Mercury News, 19 March 2010
“Concentrate all of our efforts in building up numbers as aggressively as we can through whatever tactics, however evil.”
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen in 2006, on how he inflated YouTube to a $1.65 billion sale to Google, in an email revealed in a Viacom court filing, MediaMemo, 18 March 2010
“We put the brakes on text-based chat. We realized there’s a real exciting opportunity to actualize our vision of connecting student bodies.”
RandomDorm creator Josh Weinstein, explaining his collegiate ChatRoulette knockoff’s goal a bit too accurately, Bits, 18 March 2010
“I am part of the mid-to-high-profile blogger/media crowd; I’m entitled, but I know how shitty I sound saying that I’m entitled.”
AOL blogger Nick Douglas, inadvertently explaining to himself why he doesn’t get invited to parties, All Shook Down, 17 March 2010
“I would like to have something that will actually help fund the publishers. I believe that you can build a solid, well-funded business—including investigative journalism—around advertising.”
Digg CEO Jay Adelson, trying not to pound his shoe on the table as he turns media businesses into charity cases, Telegraph.co.uk, 17 March 2010
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