David Kirkpatrick Quotes & Sayings

For users, Facebook Connect offers what could turn into a universal Internet log-in. Over 80,000 websites use it in some fashion, as of February 2010, and 60 million Facebook members are actively employing it. — David Kirkpatrick

I never wanted to run a company.To me a business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done. Mark Zuckerberg in The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick — David Kirkpatrick

Cohler advertised for summer interns, then sometimes told promising applicants when they came for an interview that Thefacebook was only hiring full-timers. — David Kirkpatrick

This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned. — David Kirkpatrick

By early 2004 Tickle had become the second-largest social network after Friendster, with two million members actively connected to others and exchanging messages. — David Kirkpatrick

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company. — David Kirkpatrick

But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It's like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, 'only the paranoid survive. — David Kirkpatrick

Mark has the most long-term perspective I've ever seen. This guy is uber uber uber on the long-term view. — David Kirkpatrick

Revenues were, according to well-informed sources, more than $550 million for 2009 - up from less than $300 million in 2008. That represents a stunning growth rate of almost 100 percent. The same sources say that the company could exceed $1 billion in revenue in 2010. — David Kirkpatrick

In Friendster's wake, a throng of social networking sites blossomed in San Francisco attempting to duplicate its appeal. Each tackled the idea of connecting people in a slightly different way. One was Tickle, a service which, on observing Friendster's broad-based appeal, altered its own service, which had previously been based on self-administered quizzes and tests. Two of the other new social sites - LinkedIn and Tribe - were founded by friends of Abrams. — David Kirkpatrick

Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country - you only see friends there. — David Kirkpatrick