I went to college.我上大学了I went to University of Missouri-Rolla initially.我最初去了密苏里大学罗拉分校I was deciding between political science我那时要在政治学和at the time and computer计算机科学science because中做出选择，因为I have always been fascinated by cities and at我一直为城市着迷some point want to maybe potentially go into government我潜意识

So, just random contract jobs until所以，我一直在打零工I discovered this company called Odeo,直到我找到了一家叫奥德奥的公司which was run by Evan Williams.它是埃文·威廉姆斯经营的Biz Stone was joining in a few months.比孜·斯通几个月后也加入了进来It was a consumer podcasting company.这是个消费者播客公司I had never written a resume before.我从没有写过简历I had no intere

But by editorial,说到编辑I mean there are a thousand things that we could我是指我们正在做的1000件事里be doing but there&#39s only one or two that are important只有一两件是重要的All of these ideas and来自用户的all of these stories from our users,工程师的，支持者的from engineers, from support people,各种想法和故事from designers are going to const

But the interesting thing I realized along the way我渐渐意识到一个很有趣的事实:is that payment is another form of communication.付款是另一种交流方式It&#39s another exchange of value.是另一种价值交换The really interesting thing about payments in the金融界的付款很有趣financial world is no one has really designed it.因为它不是什么人设计出来的If you think

When I was growing up,虽然我已经长大But it was still a joy and a wonder to me.我还是对它很好奇，觉得它很有趣You had skyscrapers and它具有摩天大楼you had all of this hidden energy.和所有这些隐藏的能量Just walking around,you could feel something different.就随便走走，你都会觉得不同That sort of love and这种爱和that obsession was made most tangible by maps.和

The thing that really inspires people真正激发人们灵感的是is a working product.用起来得心应手的产品When you&#39re pitching someone,当你向别人推荐产品的时候the best thing you can do is最好的办法就是show them something that works.向他们展示好用的东西We did this with Twitter.我们就是这么推广推特的We had a great number of users.我们有很多用户We had a great number of mas

In 2008 I stepped into the chairman role of Twitter.2008年我成为推特的老板There was an interesting thing that was happening.发生了一件很有趣的事情The entire market was crushing.整个市场都开始下滑So, all of these financial obstructions that we所以我们所有的金融障碍had built up were suddenly being swept away.都忽然消失了There is no better time to

That is really where a lot of my focus has been on.我把很多精力放在这上面It&#39s visualizing data, visualizing information,这些数据和信息变得看得见，摸得着moving around in real time.在不断实时运转着I took that concept and eventually我接受了这个概念in 2000 realized that I had最终在2000年我意识到this beautiful picture of the city我虽然勾画出了这个城市的美丽图景but it

I think of Square as a platform that&#39s我觉得Square是一个很好的平台going to build an ecosystem around it.可以围绕它打造一个很好的生态系统We&#39re going to be very, very good我们会变得非常善于about releasing strong and发行关于怎样开发东西的有力的clear APIs on how to build things.清晰的应用程序接口The best thing that you can do is你能做的最佳之事就是hook something of

It really reminds me of这让我想起one of my favorite quotes of all time.我一直最喜欢的一句话I&#39m not really sure who said it but我并不确定是谁说的it&#39s in a Lynda Barry novel called &quotCruddy&quot.不过确信这是在林达·巴里的小说《压花》里的话I think it speaks very highly of我觉得它高度赞扬了what we all do as entrepreneurs我们企业家在做的事情and what we all do

One, the marketing strategy.第一，市场策略We have not done any marketing whatsoever just yet.我们还没有做任何市场营销So, a lot of it has been word of mouth.所以很多都是口口相传By the way,顺便说一下starting a startup after Twitter is创业在推特出现之后变得so much easier than before更加容易了because you have an amazing way因为推特不仅能帮助你not just to promote

The biggest thing for me on that path在我看来，这条路上最重要的莫过于is I needed to draw是需要描绘出一些东西something out and I needed to get it out of my head.再把它们忘却I found myself very early on thinking about something,我发现我自己很早就想到一些东西like thinking about this early idea for Twitter比如我早年对推特的想法and saying to myself,我还会对自己说&quot