Xavier Niel Quotes

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

I was in the same class as Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. So we really experienced Facebook in a unique way. It launched our sophomore year, and we were also the first class where it became a recruiting tool.

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.' In part, because it's a really elegant product. It's very fast.

In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.

I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.

In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

We [Al Qaeda] must make every effort to reach out to Muslims ... through new media like Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.

Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook.

Social media is so huge.

The online thing has been really big for us: the YouTube videos, the MySpace.

If you game Facebook and Google in the right way, then you can achieve a mass audience.

The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.

Using social media can often be the fastest and easiest way to connect with online influencers because they are already established platforms for connecting with like-minded individuals.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!