Marc Randolph Quotes

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

Twitter didn't make up the hashtag. Twitter didn't make up the retweet. It's our users. And people started using them so much that we decided to weave them into the product. I can't think of another company that has taken its users' actions and said, 'We're going to make them useful to everybody.'

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it.

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

In the early days, it was enough for Imgur to have a team that was focused on building product and engineering. But I realized early on if we were going to be successful, we needed someone who would be a bridge between the company and community.

It doesn't matter how good your product solution is if users don't enjoy or understand how to use it.

When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.

I enjoy evangelizing Java. In my heart of hearts, I'm an engineer, and what makes me happy is building something that works and having someone use it. That's cool.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

My philosophy is, if I can provide a solution that the end user truly enjoys, then I think I have a chance.

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.

When people saw how other people were playing Wii Sports, they could immediately understand how different the system was.

We want to make sure every user is happy.

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

As long as we continue to bring in more traffic, I'm much more concerned with building a good user experience and developing tools that will help grow the Imgur community of users.

It turns out it's important to build a product and not just a bunch of data models.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

I think all of the great developers start not with the intent to make money, but with the intent to make something fun that's in their passion zone.

As Chief Product Officer, I lead our product team to create simple, intuitive user experiences.

We have worked with a range of input approaches. We've worked with the range of mechanisms to drive immersion into the gaming experience.