Harper Reed

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

— Harper Reed

I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?

— Harper Reed

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water.

— Harper Reed

A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

— Harper Reed

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.

— Harper Reed

Google Photos is great. I enjoy using it to curate my photo collection online. The integration on iOS to Apple Photos is…

— Harper Reed

In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to…

— Harper Reed

Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.

— 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…

— Harper Reed

There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into…

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I…

— Harper Reed

When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to…

— Harper Reed

Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there…

— Harper Reed

When I called people and said, 'Hey! Do you want to work for the president?' they usually said yes. I had 2…

— Harper Reed

The thing about Snapchat is it is ephemeral, so you don't - it's not like a video that you post to YouTube…

— Harper Reed

The information diet of a senior campaign staffer is insane. We were all addicted to our chosen email delivery devices and were…

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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…

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.

— Harper Reed

We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

— 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

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

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

— Harper Reed

When you read Trump's tweets or see candidates interact online like Jeb did with Hillary, you're like, 'Yes, it's just like my…

— Harper Reed

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

— 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

We didn't want to waste time by sending our volunteers to Republicans; we sent them to the undecided.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they…

— Harper Reed

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

— 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