Flickr

“We launched in February 2004 and by March 2005, the acquisition by Yahoo had closed. Basically a year in market, and maybe 10 and a half months before we were in the middle of negotiations.”

“It's not games that are so interesting to me, it's play as an excuse to interact with people socially.”

“It wasn't coming from a grand vision of what photos could be. All that stuff came later. There was no insight. It was just like, can we not go out of business?”

“If you do that, and you do it well, it will carry through. And then 500 people will be behaving the same way, and then 5000 people will be behaving that same way, and then eventually 500,000 people will be behaving that same way.”

“One of the things that Heather Champ, who is a community manager, the first community manager on Flickr, one thing that she says repeatedly is that what you tolerate is what you are. So if you tolerate white supremacists on your platform, you are a platform fo…”

“They introduced conventions like tagging and following that are now deeply woven into the fabric of our online relationships.”

“You know, in the very beginning of Flickr, each of us, you know, we're a team of five or six people, we're posting an average of 50 times a day in communication with our user base.”

“You know, the Muslim community did not like the bare midriff photographs that were all over Flickr, and we had to make a decision, and we came down on the side of the bare midriff. We were like, the bare midriff is okay here, and that is a decision that we are…”

“And if you look at when we started Flickr, we started it in 2003. More than 50% of all cameras were shipping with digital phones.”