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I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself.

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Learn, Own, Still, My Own

You can't necessarily tell when watching at home, but those pitches are usually an hour long each, and many are emotional, hilarious, and inspiring.

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Emotional, Tell, Many, Hilarious

I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic.

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Another, Subject, Cathartic, Boundless

When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.

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Product, Want, Bed, Comfort Zone

Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite what you might surmise from on screen, he and I are actually good friends - just really competitive good friends.

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Good, Back, Screen, Bummed

It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.

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Will, Cheaper, Tens, Progressive

Uber is a better company with better math, better predictive supply, better brand, lower pickup times, higher quality of service. They'll absolutely win.

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Pickup, Lower, Predictive, Higher Quality

When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.

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Shark, Want, Committing, Erupt

Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.

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Afford, However, Twitter, Wrong Things

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

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Career, CEO, Entire, Weed

I believe there is no natural ceiling on the revenue Twitter can generate. I also believe that Twitter's reach can become more pervasive and its impact on the world more meaningful.

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Reach, Natural, Ceiling, Generate

I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser.

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Possible, Room, Eric, Browser

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

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Planet, Mine, List, Space Travel

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

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Acceptance, Deeds, Okay, Passive

Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.

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Product, Big, Perfect, Perfect Person

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

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Deep, Way, Air, Startups

I have one of the self-driving Teslas; it drives itself periodically. It's a marvel of science, but it's still frightening. I think we've got a while before regulators and the general public wrap their heads around the path that will lead to the ubiquity of driverless cars. There's no doubt Uber will be a leader in that space.

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Leader, I Think, Before, General Public

When I was 20 years old, I was living in Ireland, going to school in Cork. There was this girl in my film class that I was kind of flirting with. We had this notebook that we passed back and forth. We would write 10 questions and then pass it back while we were supposedly paying attention.

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Questions, Back, Supposedly, Cork

There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.

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Diversity, Bring, Markets, Case

There are two reasons to pursue diversity and inclusion. One, because you believe one group has benefitted from hundreds of years of discrimination, or two, maybe you don't like that women make 73 cents on the dollar compared to men.

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Believe, Maybe, Reasons, Group

Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.

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Storytelling, Product, Your, Recruiting

You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes.

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Me, Top, American Life, iTunes

I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about external validation. I think that's given me a renewed confidence in speaking out loud. I kind of don't care what people think about me. I feel a lot more confident in saying what I believe.

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Confident, I Think, Rather, External

A great idea can't succeed without a great operator. But rarely can a great operator squeak by with a bad idea. So, as pithy as it sounds to say 'It's all about the people,' I only invest when I think I have found the right team for the right business.

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Bad, Idea, I Think, Bad Idea

All broadcasts on Periscope need to be archived for playback permanently, unless the broadcaster chooses to delete the recording. So many treasured moments have been shared on Periscope only to vanish a day later.

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Been, Shared, Broadcaster, Chooses

I want broadband to grow, more mobile devices available, particularly in underprivileged communities. I want STEM education to go ahead and fund the next generation of engineers.

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Generation, Grow, Next, Broadband

When you're fundraising for a venture fund, you're supposed to not talk.

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Talk, Fund, Supposed, Fundraising

George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.

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Piano, Been, Albums, Winston

I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that.

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Inventory, About, Our, Caps

In social settings, under the guise of joking, being collegial, flirting, or having a good time, I undoubtedly caused some women to question themselves, retreat, feel alone, and worry they can't be their authentic selves.

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Good, Feel, Some, Joking

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