{"id":2528,"date":"2014-09-12T23:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T23:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2014-09-13T03:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T03:40:04","slug":"quotes-from-the-techcrunch-disrupt-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/2014\/09\/quotes-from-the-techcrunch-disrupt-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, TechCrunch held their annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. It is a tech conference for startups and technology companies to showcase their latest technology inventions and computer applications with a focus on disruptive technology. Startups vie for attention and compete in the Startup Battlefield and companies set up booths to display their applications or technology related business. Attendees include everyone from tech geeks, tech fans, to venture capitalists, and investors. Some of the industry titans spoke during the 3 day event. These quotes<\/a> give us some insight into the future of tech and inspiration to keep inventing and innovating.<\/p>\n

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  1. Mark Cuban<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Mark-Cuban\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    \u201cThere is no sport as competitive as business.\u201d \u2013 Mark Cuban<\/p>\n

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    1. Keving Lin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \"Kevin<\/a><\/p>\n

      \u201cThe NFL better watch out.\u201d \u2013 Kevin Lin, Twitch<\/p>\n

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      1. Peter Thiel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \"Peter<\/a><\/p>\n

        \u201cSilicon Valley is going to be the center of the US economy for the next 10-20 years.\u201d \u2013 Peter Thiel<\/p>\n

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        1. Peter Thiel<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \"Peter<\/a><\/p>\n

          \u201cIf the slogan for Google is \u2018Don\u2019t be evil\u2019, then the slogan for Uber is \u2018Do a little bit of evil & don\u2019t get caught.’\u201d -Peter Thiel<\/p>\n

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          1. Clayton Christiansen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            \"Clayton<\/a><\/p>\n

            \u201cDisruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.\u201d -Clayton Christensen<\/p>\n

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            1. Travis Kalanick<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              \"Travis<\/a><\/p>\n

              \u201cIf you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable\u2026When you\u2019re the little guy that\u2019s lauded, that\u2019s heroic.\u201d -Travis Kalanick<\/p>\n

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              1. Liam Casey<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                \"Liam<\/p>\n

                \u201cIt\u2019s all about the team. If you don\u2019t have a great team to deliver a product, it\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d -Liam Casey<\/p>\n

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                1. Marc Benioff<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  \"Marc<\/a><\/p>\n

                  “Don\u2019t forget to do something for other people.\u201d -Marc Benioff<\/p>\n

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                  1. Scott Dietzen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                    \"Scott<\/a><\/p>\n

                    \u201cThe missionaries make more money than the mercenaries\u201d -Scott Dietzen<\/p>\n

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                    1. Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      \"Laura<\/a><\/p>\n

                      \u201cWe\u2019re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive.\u201d -Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                      Earlier this week, TechCrunch held their annual TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. It is a tech conference for startups and technology companies to showcase their latest technology inventions and computer applications with a focus on disruptive technology. Startups vie for attention and compete in the Startup Battlefield and companies set up booths to display their applications or technology related business. Attendees include everyone from tech geeks, tech fans, to venture capitalists, and investors. Some of the industry titans spoke during the 3 day event. These quotes give us some insight into the future of tech and inspiration to keep inventing and innovating. Mark Cuban \u201cThere is no sport as competitive as business.\u201d \u2013 Mark Cuban Keving Lin \u201cThe NFL better watch out.\u201d \u2013 Kevin …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[807,808,806],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing","tag-disrupt-conference","tag-quotes","tag-techcrunch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandme.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}