Michael Birch Quotes

• I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

  Michael Birch

  Running, Ambition, Starting Up

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• If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

  Michael Birch

  Mean, Long, Needs

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• People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

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  Daughter, Years, People

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• Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

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  Simple, Alarms, Site

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• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

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  Kids, Exercise, Thinking

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• Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

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  People, Edginess, Edgy

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• I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

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  Trying, Viruses, Way

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• I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

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  Want, Website, Backgrounds

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