David Kirkpatrick Quotes

#1. This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned.

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#2. I never wanted to run a company.To me a business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done. Mark Zuckerberg in The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick

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#3. Cohler advertised for summer interns, then sometimes told promising applicants when they came for an interview that Thefacebook was only hiring full-timers.

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#4. Mark has the most long-term perspective I've ever seen. This guy is uber uber uber on the long-term view.

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#5. But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It's like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, 'only the paranoid survive.

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#6. By early 2004 Tickle had become the second-largest social network after Friendster, with two million members actively connected to others and exchanging messages.

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#7. Revenues were, according to well-informed sources, more than $550 million for 2009 - up from less than $300 million in 2008. That represents a stunning growth rate of almost 100 percent. The same sources say that the company could exceed $1 billion in revenue in 2010.

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#8. He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

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#9. Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country - you only see friends there.

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#10. For users, Facebook Connect offers what could turn into a universal Internet log-in. Over 80,000 websites use it in some fashion, as of February 2010, and 60 million Facebook members are actively employing it.

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