Satya Nadella Quotes

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.

One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.

I think there are a lot more people that don't use Pinterest in the world than do use it, so for most people, that first experience is really, really important. I think feeling really close and in touch with that first user experience is pretty basic to making it better every day.

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

You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

One of the hard parts about building a service that you use yourself is that it's easy to forget what it was like the very first time someone signs up. Every once in a while, I'll create a brand new account and give it a try and see how hard it is to find things that I really love, see if I'm using it or thinking about it differently.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

I can't imagine that companies are uninteresting if they don't have a billion users. But I do believe, to have mass scale, you have to be in the many-hundreds-of-millions-of-users range, and there are not that many companies that get there.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.

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

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.

We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.

It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

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