The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes. — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal. — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
I programmed computers every day. And one of my favourite apps we built was this thing called Awesome Updater, that all it did is… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from other startup… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
My entire career has been based around commerce. The Obama campaign was famous for raising boatloads of money online. My question is how do… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut'… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
