Sean Parker Quotes

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

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

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

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

I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

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's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.

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

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

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

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.

One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.

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

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.

We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

I've been a Mac guy for 20 years. Even if I'm having trouble with the latest MacBook Pro, I'm still a Mac guy.