Harper Reed

Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think…

— Harper Reed

I programmed computers every day. And one of my favourite apps we built was this thing called Awesome Updater, that all it…

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Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from…

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My entire career has been based around commerce. The Obama campaign was famous for raising boatloads of money online. My question is…

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I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.

— Harper Reed

When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it…

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We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's…

— Harper Reed

People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict…

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What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the…

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I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to…

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Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest…

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The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It…

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Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I…

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There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the…

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I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself…

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Chicago's a flyover city. I don't think we should try to change that. But it would be really cool if we had…

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Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

— Harper Reed

Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd…

— Harper Reed

I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.

— Harper Reed

It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see…

— Harper Reed

I can only speak to the Democrat side, but for the Democrats, everything is aggressively measured, and what that means is if…

— Harper Reed

The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure…

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The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and…

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I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

— Harper Reed

The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.

— Harper Reed