Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

— Harper Reed

I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is…

— Harper Reed

Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a…

— Harper Reed

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

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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…

— Harper Reed

My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.

— Harper Reed

My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.

— Harper Reed

PayPal's been around forever. How do we use that platform to solve the future of commerce?

— 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

First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers.…

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My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is…

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

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

— 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

Oftentimes in tech, people think, 'I'm the only one that has this.' I call them the Atlas People. They're like, 'The weight…

— Harper Reed

When you go from building T-shirts to software for a presidential campaign used by a cast of millions, it's pretty easy to…

— 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 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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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

I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes…

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I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected…

— Harper Reed

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 am patiently waiting for the singularity.

— Harper Reed

I'm not a very patient person in general.

— Harper Reed

Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.

— Harper Reed

If there's one thing about Chicago, we take care of our own.

— Harper Reed

I love books that stand the test of time.

— Harper Reed

Let's not project our fears onto others.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

If there's a wall, we break it down and go through it.

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

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

— Harper Reed

I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting…

— Harper Reed