“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
“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
“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
“We usually send manufacturers a big file, with photos of the guts of their products, pointing to where they’ve been using our technology without paying for it. Once those images have sunk in, we can start negotiating.”
Technicolor lawyer Beatrix de Russe, on the horse’s-head approach to intellectual-property enforcement, Bloomberg free resume builder, 28 May 2012
“It doesn’t need to go out over the Internet and I’m not a big fan of websites.”
Fox News chief Roger Ailes, on not allowing video of a recent speech to be posted online, JimRomenesko.com, 27 May 2012
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