It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.