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― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
― The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“When Taylor had called Mark to explain the situation, Facebook's CEO had given clear instructions to shut Twitter down the second it tried to launch.”
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
“What do you think your valuation is right now?" Mark asked as they both sat uncomfortably across from and below him, peering up at a boy who could, hypothetically speaking, quite happily buy them or murder them, all with the same exact expression on his face.”
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
“The man persisted. "No, no, no. It was so funny. What software did you use?" - apparently in the belief that the software had built-in humor generation.”
― The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
― The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
“Fred wasn't convinced, telling Charlie that such a service would never work and that other companies that had tried to make Twitter-like products had all failed.”
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
― Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
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