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I think of myself as just another consumer.
I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.
If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.
Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.
It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.
Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.
Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.
You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.
You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.
Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
I believe that first impressions are very important.
I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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